Heroes and Not - What should Snape Have Done?.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 145343

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at x...> wrote:
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> In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "h2so3f" <h2so3f at y...> wrote:
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> > Had Snape been a true DE he could have easily killed Harry 
> > when he had him wandless and alone during his escape. It 
> > doesn't take a long time to perform the AK curse. ... Snape
> > had ample time to AK Harry. 

> Gerry:
> 
> Actually, I think Snape would have been in huge trouble if he had
> killed Harry. LV must be seen as the biggest baddy on the block, and
> Harry has defied in again and again. He must kill Harry himself to
> gain supremacy, and I'm sure Snape understands that. 
> ...edited...
> 
> Gerry
>

bbouyminn:

I think this is true of Snape, but not necessarily the other DE's
onthe scene. If Snape had killed Harry, I'm sure at first Voldemort
would have express some disappointment, but then, in turn,
congradulated Snape for getting rid of that /pest/ once and for all.
But then he would start getting paranoid, thinking that maybe Snape
could challenge his power and position. 

For any other DE, especially the other DE's on the scene, Voldemort
won't have thought much of it because few if any of them could really
challenge Voldemort's power. In otherwords, no one would even remotely
think that they were more powerful than Voldemort. 

But Snape is a different case, I would say he is an extremely
accomplished wizard and well schooled in the Dark Arts. It wouldn't
take long for a paranoid Voldemort to start wondering about Snape, to
start fearing that maybe Snape's goal all along had been to destory
Voldemort and become the new Greatest Dark Wizard who ever lived. 

Given that level of paranoia, Voldemort would have no choice but to
kill Snape in order to protect his 'throne'.

My point is, that I think this level of paranoia would only be true if
Snape, or possible one of an extremely few other DE's, killed Harry.
Had it been any of the other mediocre DE on the top of the tower, or
making their escape from Hogwarts, Voldemort would have been
disappointed, but he wouldn't have seen them as a threat.

So, we can't read much into Snape not killing Harry for just this
reason, but I don't think this same reasoning applies to Snape not
allowing the other DE to kill Harry.

The Happiest of Holiday Seasons to All.

Steve/bboyminn