Will Snape betray Dumbledore? Re: my greatest fear....

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No: HPFGUIDX 121182


 
>> Alla: 
> Oh, dear. Welcome back to the Light side. :o) I NEVER bought Snape 
> going to the Tunnel, because he wanted to save the kids as his 
> primary motivation. Revenge, revenge and revenge again.
> 
> I am not sure though that he did not know that the kids were 
there. 
> Are you saying that he could not see them on the Map? Because 
then, 
> I will abandon "saving life motive" even as secondary motivation, 
> which I happened to hope he has.

Potioncat:
chp 17 Lupin appears in the Shrieking Shack saying he saw Black pull 
Ron into the tunnel.(on the Map)

chp 19 Snape says,
"I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight." (on the 
map)  

Therefore, he saw Lupin go out of sight.  The trio, Scabbers and 
Black would already have been out of sight. So he only saw Lupin.

What I can say, is that Snape, who has suspected Lupin all along, 
sees him going to the Shrieking Shack where he used to go for 
transformations. If Lupin has violated the "contract" so to speak, 
Snape may feel justified in going after him.  He was afterall, a 
danger to the school.  

 The essay he assigned the DADA class was "...on the ways you 
recognise and kill werewolves."  Keeping in mind, the empahsis was 
on the werewolf in wolf form vrs a true wolf.  Now I wonder, did 
Snape want to prepare students in case they met up with Lupin in the 
moonlight? Or was he hoping someone would kill Lupin without knowing 
who it was?

>>Alla: 
> Now, why did he follow werewolf in the tunel indeed? Maybe he 
> thought he knew how to fight werewolf succesfully? Hmmm, makes you 
> wonder about some past events. :)

Potioncat:
I should have put that part of your post above my comments.  I 
wonder if Snape was prepared to kill the werewolf? (in werewolf 
form.)

>>Alla:
> About Snape betraying Dumbleodre... Not sure. Him wanting revenge 
> against Remus and Black, not caring who will be hurt in the 
process, Dumbledore included, fits pretty well in the picture of 
Snape holding his old grudges, without him betraying Dumbledore. 

Potioncat:
Well, I like this explanation better than mine. You and I do switch 
roles from time to time, don't we?