Snape thoughts

[Christopher Nuttall]

No: HPFGUIDX 136785

Having read most of the other’s Snape theories, now I will contribute mine.

 

I think that Snape was a gifted child when he was born, one with considerable talents.  Unfortunately, that led him to become ambitious, hence his sorting into Slytherin.  As a half-blood, he was builled by the others and became proud of it, calling himself the ‘half-blood prince’ because of it.  He took pride in his ‘low-born’ origins, so to speak.  A lot of children do this when they are bullied.

 

One of the bullies was James Potter.  Snape may or may not have invented the lifting spell – did he show it off for someone’s approval? – but it was used on him.  Snape conceived a hatred of James and Sirus, not without reason.  After Sirius tried to introduce him to Remus in wolf form, Snape must have believed that he had intended to kill him.  Dumbledore was so lenient to them – Sirius should have been expelled for that – that Snape fell towards Voldemort.  Perhaps because the dark lord might have known things that Snape wanted to know, or perhaps out of a desire for revenge.  James was pro-Order, so Snape would not be.

 

I speculate that Snape liked Lily, enough to not wish her any harm.

 

Anyway, when the prediction was made, Snape saw it as an opportunity to get James killed.  He told Voldemort, perhaps empathising that James had a child.  James and his spawn (Harry) would be wiped from the Earth; lily would be allowed to live.  (Speculation; did Voldemort swear an Unbreakable Oath with Snape for that?  Was that why the spell bounced back?)

 

After Lily died, Snape fled to Dumbledore and confessed.  (While this does seem to contradict Dumbledore’s statement in GOF that Snape joined the Order before Voldemort fell, its possible that Snape fled AFTER telling Voldemort, but before Voldemort went to kill them.)  Dumbledore saw the advantage – and perhaps seeing that Snape was genuinely repentant – that he arranged for Snape to become a teacher and positioned in such a place as to be useful to Voldemort.

 

Years pass, and Harry comes to Hogwarts.  He’s very like his father, so Snape hates him, but Dumbledore tells him to look after Harry, so he does.  The bad chemistry between the two prevents Harry from seeing that.  Snape’s knowledge of the Dark Arts makes him the only other teacher that can teach Harry to shield his mind, a bad outcome.

 

I think that Dumbledore knew what Draco was sent to do, after his father was locked up.  Snape may not have, but he had been tricked into taking the Unbreakable Oath.  I suspect that DD might have been dying ever since he found the ring, and so he ordered Snape to prepare to kill him, if necessary, therefore placing him in the best possible position to help Harry in book 7.  He didn’t confide that in McGonagall; but perhaps Hagrid knows.  Snape’s rage at the killing is perhaps because he knows he has no choice, but to strike down the man who saved him from Askaban.  That gives him the strength to cast AK.

 

Thoughts?

 

Chris



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