Sleeping Snape Distrusted by all

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> -aussie-
> I did a word search about Snape sleeping, and couldn't find 
anything 
> in the posts. Seems as though NO-ONE trusted Snape.

Potioncat:
Well, with this search tool, it would be hard to find an elephant in 
a phone booth. I've written at least two well drafted, thought 
provoking posts about sleeping Snape...they've been widely ignored by 
discriminating minds.

Here is a bit of Carol's reply to your post:

Carol responds:
We don't know that he was asleep. He certainly was not dressed in his
night shirt (as in the encounter with Fake!Moody in GoF) when Flitwick
came to his office and nothing is said about waking him up. I think DD
was just assuming that he was asleep because of the late hour, but
Snape the night owl wa more likely marking DADA essays than sleeping.
He certainly didn''t know that the DEs had found a way into Hogwarts
and yet he seems to have been awake. He might well have been waiting
for Dumbledore to return. We don't know.

Potioncat:

In the very first read, DD's request to Harry to go wake Snape 
actually jumped out at me. After all the talk about leaving Hogwarts 
secure, after 5 books of Snape lurking about the dark halls in good 
times, I found it hard to believe Snape was in bed. After some 
thought, I realise that Snape cannot be patrolling the hall with 
Order members ...wait a minute, does LV know that Snape is in the 
Order?... But I can't believe Snape would be in bed. Or that DD would 
assume it. "Go get Snape" I could accept, but go "wake" Snape seemed 
odd.

Then we know that when Flitwick went into get Snape for McG, Flitwick 
was, at the least, knocked down. Snape must have been startled awake. 
I think DD had put a spell on Snape or slipped him a potion. Snape is 
dressed, he isn't in bed.  Because he was startled, I don't think he 
expected to be asleep.  But I think he was asleep or he would have 
been likely to know that something was wrong. I mean, if he could 
hear a teacher getting sacked,(OoP) you'd think he could hear a 
battle.

It's my theory that the argument in the forest was, at least in part, 
about DD's going after horcruxes. I think DD put Snape under so that 
he could go out undisturbed. He knew Snape would help him once he got 
back. It may have been a mistake because an awake Snape may have been 
able to take different actions if he'd gotten to the DEs earlier.