Snape Loyalty

[Jessica Bathurst]

No: HPFGUIDX 138102

"ellecain" wrote:
> Please excuse breaches of etiquette as this is my first 
> post. I'll get better at this...
>
> Now I'm a diehard Reformed!Snape believer and will 
> probably weep when/if he dies in book 7.
> 
> I hate to give out ammunition to the OutforHimself!Snape 
> theory but here goes..
> Snape is a Slytherin (Head of House actually...)
>
> In OoTP, when Harry attempts to run away from Grimmauld 
> Place, doesn't Phineas Nigellus say something like
> "We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid.
> For instance, given the choice, we always choose
> to save our own necks."
>
> So wouldn't Snape save his own neck if he really was 
> wavering between sides? If he had misgivings about 
> whether he was on the right side, he made a choice on 
> that tower.


Hey there!  My first post as well...

I think Snape would absolutely save his own neck, not because he's 
so afraid of dying (he's not been shown as a physical coward, just 
an emotional one), but because he needs to see his own personal 
agenda out to the end.  (I've only been on this list for a couple 
of days, so forgive me if I'm repeating.)  I think Snape's endgame 
is the destruction of Voldemort (either for revenge or glory, 
although I don't think he wants to replace him as the Big Bad, and 
he'll use any means necessary to do it.  (I shall now privately 
refer to him as "Severus X.")  In this, he is absolutely on the 
side of the Order, but he's not unambiguously good.

And ellecain, I think we should be prepared to bid adieu to our 
dear Severus, because if he's playing this game, he's either going 
to end up dead or in Azkaban.

Jessica

*******************

"It's not a lie.  It's what would be true if the facts were different." 
(Malcolm in the Middle)