Dumbledore and Snape again. WAS: Re: Missing Horcrux = Ravenclaw's

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "colebiancardi" <muellem at b...> 
wrote:

> If Snape is Good!Snape(which I still believe he is), I feel that
> he was under the same orders as Harry was.  To follow DD's 
> instructions to the letter.  If DD wanted him to protect Draco 
> and not have Draco become a killer, there is only one outcome - 
> DD must die at the hands of Snape.  There is no other outcome.

First, we don't know for sure that there was any sort of plan between 
DD and Snape.  There is great ambiguity and a lot of hopeful 
thinking.  Personally I think the book is much more powerful with the 
events as the currently starkly stand: Snape has betrayed the person 
who cared for him most in the world.  

Second, this was not an either/or situation:  it was not as simple as 
Snape could either let Draco be a killer or kill Dumbledore.  There 
is at least one more option:  Snape could have elected to break his 
Unbreakable Vow, die himself, and let Dumbledore live.

> You think this is an easy way out - to kill someone whom you have
> followed and respected for the past 15 years or so? 

When you could sacrifice yourself for the person who you have 
followed and respected for the past 15 years?  Yes.

> At their wishes?  

Whose wishes?  We have no hard evidence--yet--that Dumbldore has a 
death plan with Snape.  

> Snape is much more useful as a undercover agent in Voldy's camp and

IF he is an undercover agent working for the good.
 
At the moment I am not convinced that Snape is working for anyone but 
himself.

jujube