Snape: the Riddle

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 136049

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" 
<severelysigune at y...> wrote:
> Sigune previously:
> > > Snape's foolishly accepted Unbreakable Vow 
> 
> Eggplant:
> > Nobody is foolish enough to make an Unbreakable Vow on a whim and
> > Snape is far from foolish.
> 
> Sigune again:
> It's not a whim, exactly - see below. But I maintain that it is 
> foolish, dangerous and final.
> 
> > Sigune previously:
> > > To agree to anything like an Unbreakable Vow
> > > seems incredibly naïve – 
> 
> Eggplant:
> > 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. <
> 
>> 
> Sigune previously:
> > > Why doesn't he tie a bow around Harry and 
> > > carry him as a special present to his
> > > Dark Master 
> 
> Eggplant:
> > 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. <
> 
> Sigune again:
> I must be missing something here, but I really can't see what 
Snape 
> stands to gain by Dumbledore's death. Voldemort's death, that I 
can 
> understand. But by killing Dumbledore, Snape has lost *all*: his 
> mentor, his protector, his safehouse, his job, his income - you 
name 
> it. Cut in his own flesh, he has. He wouldn't have done it if he 
felt 
> he had another choice.
 
I have to agree with Snape not gaining very much from DD's death.  I 
seriously doubt that Snape's next stop is tea with Voldemort.  Will 
Voldemort be happy that one of his DE's succeeded in doing what he 
didn't--Sir Snape killed the wizard that Voldemort feared?  Snape 
led Narcissa to believe that using Draco was a plot to get him 
killed, a payback for Lucius (and now we know it was an even bigger 
payback than losing the prophecy, for he lost part of Voldemort's 
soul by tossing the Diary to an 11 year old).  Really, how happy is 
Voldemort going to be with Snape after he figures it all 
out...sneaky late night visitors to Spinner's End having 
conversations that Voldemort ordered them not to have, helping 
Narcissa thwart Voldemort's plan for the Malfoys, Bella will spin 
the incident like she did in the MOM and none of it will be her 
fault. Aren't we sure good old Wormtail heard some of the 
conversation while they were bound together with the firey ropes 
since Wormtail was put there by Voldemort in the first place to spy? 

I really don't think there will be a hero's welcome for Snape at 
all. It does seem like Snape bit off more than he could chew, he 
seems to have a pattern of poking his hooked nose in things and 
making decisions based on his faulty reasoning that he is in control 
that end up biting him in the bum(following teenage!Lupin; leaving 
his memories unattended for Harry to experience; overhearing the 
prophecy and carrying it back to Voldemort; and now taking this vow 
and doing everything he can to control Draco).