[HPforGrownups] Re: It's over, Snape is evil (was: Dumbledore and Snape again)

[Jessica Bathurst]

No: HPFGUIDX 138466

>From Eggplant:

>And if this was some sort of loony plan by Dumbledore nobody 
>can explain why on earth he didn't tell Harry as he now considers 
>Snape a mortal enemy on a par with Voldemort himself and are 
>likely to try to kill each other.

That'd be the brilliance of what appears to be a rather improvised plan, if plan it is.  Presume that Snape wants to destroy Voldemort, for whatever reason: the glory of besting the top dark wizard, 
revenge for some wrong or hurt, some other reason we don't even 
know about.  Snape knows that Harry is somehow necessary to this process, but he doesn't have enough faith in Harry's abilities to 
get to the Dark Lord, much less kill him.  However, if someone 
(like Snape!) was in good with Voldemort and could assist at a 
crucial moment, that person would be placed for maximum effect.  
At this point, Snape would be practically undetectable as a secret weapon, since every one of the Phoenix members distrusts him.  And Harry, who is as easily read as my dog-eared copy of "The 
Godfather," hates him.  Voldemort would never see the assist coming until it was already too late.  (Strategically, it's pretty sound.  Snape can handily defeat Harry without hurting him, so I don't 
think there's much of a battle to be fought there.)

I don't think Dumbledore and Snape had this whole plan worked out 
in advance, but there must have been some reason why Dumbledore 
felt the need to unload all the information about Voldemort and 
the horcruxes at this particular point.  Maybe he knew his time 
was running short, one way or the other.  And once in the tower, 
I think he was perfectly capable of deciding fairly quickly that 
his life wasn't worth the loss of the secret weapon.  After all, 
what's the other alternative?  Snape takes out one or two DEs, 
Dumbledore dies anyway (and probably Snape as well), and the Order 
has no one in the DE camp.

It's a sacrifice that makes sense to me.  But then again, I watch 
too much "Alias."

Yours,
Jessica