The Gleam! The Gleam!

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 139136

Pippin wrote:
> Dumbledore knew, when he heard that Voldemort had taken
> Harry's blood, that  Voldemort would excuse Snape for not
> offing Harry when he had the chance, and therefore Snape could
> indeed resume his role as spy. Thus the gleam of triumph,
> and thus the reason said gleam has not yet been explained.
> 
> If we knew why Dumbledore regarded Snape's re-insertion
> as his ace in the hole, we'd have a reason why Dumbledore
> would be willing to die to keep Snape's cover intact, so 
> obviously we can't be told.


Pippin, I'm afraid I need more... from you or from others who agree 
with your view.  

Just whose plan is in effect here?  Are you saying Voldy planned all 
along to come back by using Harry's blood, and so he never wanted Snape 
to off Harry?  Are you saying Voldy eventually simply realized he could 
use Harry's blood to come back and so, even tho he HAD been inclined to 
kill Snape, after his resurrection he was no longer mad at him?  
Perhaps even *appreciated* his not having killed Harry?

And are you saying that DD didn't think, until this moment, that Snape 
could ever resume his spying on Voldy activities?  That it was knowing 
that Voldy had decided to spare Snape that made DD think it was safe to 
send Snape back?  

I guess my question, then, would be... why would DD be so CERTAIN of 
Voldy's willingness to forgive?  Just because he discovered he could 
use Harry's blood -- and, in fact, DID so -- how would DD know that 
this meant for certain that Voldy wouldn't kill Snape for past betrayal 
and treachery?  I don't quite get that leap to DD's certainty of 
excusing Snape.

As for DD's willingness to die, I guess I've not seen that as specific 
to maintaining Snape's cover.  I would imagine there might have been 
several reasons why and several situations in which DD would have been 
willing to die in order to further the cause of defeating Voldy.  To 
me, it's not necessary that the reason be a desire to protect Snape's 
cover.  I mean, in the end, I think that was PART of it -- in dying, he 
did allow Snape to "prove" to Voldy his tremendous Voldy-loyalty.  But 
I don't think I can believe that, that early on (at the moment of the 
gleam), DD was planning to die as a means of making that happen.

Or have I misread all of this? ;-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan