I don't want to do it *ANYMORE* (was Re: Snape's punishment a "moral" issue? )

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 144134


> lupinlore wrote:
> > Could he want out of spying on the DEs?  Very possibly.  Maybe he 
> > thinks that things have gotten too dangerous, and that he needs out 
> > from under.  An OFH!Snape or Grey!Snape scenario fits well, here.  

> lealess wrote:
> I think he just got caught in the UV, and realized he may have been 
> losing his touch as a spy, so if anything, continuing to spying gets 
> my vote.  Maybe what Dumbledore took for granted was his ability to 
> continue to lie.

zgirnius:
Spying gets my vote as well. But I think maybe something more specific 
was going on. Both Dumbledore and Snape pretty much had to know from 
the start of the HBP school year that Snape would no longer be at 
Hogwarts the following year. (I know it has been suggested that 
Dumbledore may have planned to move Snape back to Potions in the 
following year, but I never bought this idea. The action of the DADA 
curse as we have seen it through 5 books has not only removed them from 
the DADA position within the year, but has also tended to render them 
unemployable as teachers in any position. And Book 6 continued this 
pattern).

So there has to have been some idea of what Snape would be doing in 
this next year on the spying front. And it seems to me that the plan 
would be for Snape to move into 'full-time' spying (since at Hogwarts 
he is obviously not in a position to do much spying on the Death Eaters 
and Voldemort). What Dumbledore may be taking for granted is Snape;s 
ability to continue fooling Voldemort. The difficulty may now seem 
greater for several reasons:

1) Snape may be helped in his deception of Voldemort that they must 
have very limited contact due to Snape's position at Hogwarts;
2) Snape may be realizing that Voldemort is still quite suspicious 
despite whatever story he was told by Snape after the end of GoF (what 
IS Pettigrew up to in Snape's house?)
3) If there is some 'plan' involving the killing of Dumbledore by 
Snape, this may be something which will be especially difficult for 
Snape to hide (since the key to Occlumency, in his words, is to 'shut 
down those feelings and memories that contradict the lie').

If this is what they have been discussiong, though, I thinkl that Snape 
is now good and stuck. Among the Death Eaters is the only place he can 
show his face...

Just some random thoughts on the overheard conversation...