What would Snape have to do....

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 138589

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> bimbledor here:
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> Here's my reasoning on why DD trusts Snape: 
> the absolute, incontrovertible reason someone could be trusted to 
> be anti-Voldemort would be that they are capable of love, that they 
> love.
>
> I think DD must, at some point, have become convinced of that part 
> of Snape's character, whether through Snape's motives for deeds or
> because Snape confessed to loving someone dearly (back to Lily?) or
> because DD has seen this ability to love in Snape's memories through
> the Pensieve.  If Snape truly has loved or loves, he wouldn't be
> capable of AKing or of being a DE, just as HP finds himself 
> incapable of doing the Unforgiveable Curses. 
> 
I too brought up this interpretation of Snape, in a somewhat different
context ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137861
), suggesting that he was far more like Harry than he was like
Voldemort in this respect.

Which brings me to an interesting (at least to me) speculation about
Snape's actual feelings about Harry, and how Harry ended up with
Snape's Potions textbook. If Snape hated James (which he pretty
obviously does) but loved Lily, even from afar, he would be bound to
feel rather ambivalent about their son. Could he have planted the book
in the Potions classroom in the knowledge that Harry, having been
turned down for his (Snape's) N.E.W.T.s class but accepted for
Slughorn's, would arrive at Hogwarts without a textbook? And the hope
that Harry, having acquired the book and recognized it for the
treasure it was, would hang onto it as a kind of legacy from its
previous owner? Is this a kind of passing of the torch? If so, it
would be of a piece with Snape's other attempts to prepare Harry for
the contest that lies ahead of him.

--Gatta