Snape: the Riddle

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 136020

 "severelysigune" <severelysigune at y...> wrote:

> Snape's foolishly accepted Unbreakable Vow 

Nobody is foolish enough to make an Unbreakable Vow on a whim and
Snape is far from foolish.

> Snape and Bellatrix obviously dislike each 
> other, and yet there is a seduction going
> on: she coaxes him into making a mistake. 

The Idea that Snape could be seduced like an overly romantic love sick
teenager into making such a blunder somehow strikes me as funny. If
that turns out to be true just try to imagine how trashy book 7 will be!  

> To agree to anything like an Unbreakable Vow
> seems incredibly naïve – 

It would be naïve, unless you were only vowing to do what you were
already determined to do, to kill Dumbledore if Draco failed to do so. 
  
> Why doesn't he tie a bow around Harry and 
> carry him as a special present to his
> Dark Master 

Because Snape does not have a Dark master although Voldemort thinks he
does. Snape has fooled Voldemort just as he fooled Dumbledore and he
wants both dead. He's halfway there and to get the other half he needs
Harry alive and healthy.

>When Dumbledore whispers "Severus 
 please 
"
> he is not pleading for his life, because 
> he is not afraid to die; neither is he 
> asking Snape to kill him as arranged, 
> because there was no such arrangement. 
> What he means is, "please don't tell me I
> was wrong about you all the time 

I think that's true and tragically in his last few seconds of his life
Dumbledore learned the brutal truth, he had been wrong about Snape all
the time.

Eggplant