Why Snape did not take Harry to LV WAS: ( was: Did Snape "murder" Dumbledor

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" 
<vmonte at y...> wrote:
> Alla:
> 
> Well, yes, if you believe that Snape is good, the answer is that 
he
> was protecting Harry, but if you subscribe to Snape,who is out 
for
> himself and in HBP chose Evil path, the answer would be 
different.
> 
> I believe that Snape is sincere, when he degrates Harry's 
skills. he
> does not believe that Harry is able to defeat Voldie YET, but at 
the
> same time Snape knows the complete Prophecy ( that is IMO 
of course),
> so he thinks that at one point Harry WILL be ready to kill Voldie.
> 
> Snape is biting for time, IMO. He thinks it is useless to take 
Harry
> to LV yet, because Voldemort would just kill him now and I do 
think
> that eventually Snape wants to be the next Dark Lord - here his
> dream
> of being widely respected Dark Wizard will come true. :-)
> 
> Right, so this is why IMO Snape did not take Harry to 
Voldemort.
> 
> vmonte:
> I think that Snape did not take Harry to Voldemort because he 
is 
> going to wait till Harry destroys all the horcruxes, it's less work 
> for him. 
> 
> Once Harry completes this part of the mission he will then go 
to  
> confront Voldemort. This is where Snape comes back in...
> BWAHAHAHAHA!
> 
> Vivian 
> http://www.vmonte.com/HPHome.html

Sue here:

The problem with coming in at this late point in a thread is that 
you miss the original theory and a lot of the other comments, so 
please forgive me, all, if I've missed something vital here. Er - at 
what point in this book or any of the others does it suggest that 
Snape wants domination of the WW? Have I missed something? 
:-) (Puzzled grin)

Snape is a bully to the kids, yes. He seems to get on okay with 
the rest of the staff, though  in this last book they express doubts 
(but only near the end, after he's gone).  In the past he's been a 
team player on staff, e.g. in CoS, but mostly seems to be pretty 
much a loner. If he was a Muggle, he'd be working in a chemistry 
lab somewhere, doing research and being rude to anyone who 
bothered him, going home to his boring flat and maybe a cat, 
and cooking pasta for one before bedtime. Or he'd be the 
university head of faculty whom staff and students avoided 
unless absolutely necessary. I don't think he has what it takes to 
be head honcho on a large scale and he's bright enough to 
know this. Voldemort was what he was right from the beginning,  
as we see in HBP. IMO, it's just a bit late for Snape to be going 
for world domination, if that's what he wanted.

As for the horcruxes, he doesn't know Harry's plan, does he? He 
didn't even know Draco was going to bring in the DEs that night, 
any more than DD did. So he's had no time to plan anything, IMO.

This is not, BTW, a reply to this post specifically, but to the thread 
in general.