Re: Dumbledore’s flawed plan

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 136240

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

> I would like to point out the 
> three word annswer "Snape is evil"
> is not the answer to every 
> question about Snape. 

True, but "Snape is evil" will answer about 97% of the questions about
Snape and you don't even need ridiculously convoluted gymnastics. I'm
a little surprised we're still debating this, even before HBP Snape
was a pretty rotten human being, but now he's murdered Dumbledore for
heaven's sake, what more does the man have to do?

> An evil Snape who cares about 
> noone/nothing but himself ought
> not take a UV to protect Draco. 
> Why risk his own life in this way? 

Killing Dumbledore is certain to be dangerous, if he could get Draco
to do it for him Snape would be delighted to help in a support
capacity vow or no vow.

> An evil Snape who serves Voldemort 
> especially has no reason to take 
> this vow. 

That's true, but an evil Snape who does NOT serve Voldemort would have
a reason to take the vow, it gets Bellatrix off his back and at no
cost because he was going to help Draco anyway. 
By the way, can you give me a reason why a good Snape would make a vow
to murder the greatest most powerful good wizard in the world? Can you
tell me how losing their greatest asset (except perhaps for Harry)
helps the good guys?  No gymnastics please.

> if Draco were to attempt a suicide
> style attack on DD, Snape would 
> actually have to protect Draco 

Suicide attack? Draco? Snape knows him better than that.

> if Draco made some hideously 
> unsuccessful overt attempt on
> DD's life, Snape would be 
> compelled to step in right then. 

And that's exactly what he did, but he was not compelled, he would
have done it even without the vow. 

Eggplant