It's over, Snape is evil (was: Dumbledore and Snape again).

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"Jessica Bathurst" <ragingjess at h...> wrote:

> You can never be in too good with a sociopath.

You can never have a sociopath's complete trust regardless of what you
do, and the idea that the OOP would agree to let their most powerful,
wisest, and kindest wizard get murdered just to incrementally increase
Voldemort's trust in Snape is ridiculous, especially when it is likely
to have the exact opposite effect. Think back over history, when a
dictator's general wins some huge victory it may increase the
dictator's respect for the general but it never increases his trust.
It is the incompetent general that the troops think of with contempt
that the dictator feels unthreatened by.  
 
> About the UV - that was a mistake,
> probably  born of arrogance (and
> possibly Snape's secret desire for
> desparate blondes). Snape may not
> have seen where the Vow was going

"And now," the commentator said in a low hushed voice, "The next
member of the Snape lovers team will attempt a mental Reverse Flying
Triple back Somersault with a degree of difficulty of 4.2, 
. and so
.
ah too bad, that must have hurt." 
 
> He was stupid to bind himself so 
> irrevocably to a course of action 

Nobody is that stupid, if you make an Unbreakable Vow to kill somebody
it doesn't take a genius to figure out what that will lead to. 

> He [Voldemort] apparently asked 
> the DEs to leave him [Harry] at
> Hogwarts to be dealt with later
> personally. 

If one of his lowly Death Eaters had killed Harry after Voldemort had
tried to do it personally 5 times and failed disastrously each and
every time it would look bad, it would look very very bad. Why should
we follow this Bozo who can't even kill a little boy, let's follow the
man who actually killed the Chosen One.  

> I don't think Snape is a good guy.
> He doesn't seem to have much in the
> way of abstract moral reasoning, 
> and I doubt he'd align himself with
> a group just because they were the
> good guys.

I agree, and I can understand how a man like that might hate
Voldemort, after all hate is what Snape is especially good at; but if
he is the sort of man you and I think he is what possible reason would
he have to be loyal to Dumbledore if it conflicts with his goals? 

> He does, however, have a very real
> (if completely personal) sense of
> what is "right," and he acts accordingly.

The only time I've seen Snape do anything good is when he saved
Harry's life in book 1 and he did that because he heard the Prophecy
and needed Harry to get rid of Voldemort for him. 

> Snape had no idea what was going 
> on behind the door until he opened
> it. It took him a few seconds to
> put it all together.

So, so Snape didn't have enough time to figure out it might be a good
idea to kill the Death Eaters but he did have enough time to decide to
murder Dumbledore. Back flip time.

Eggplant