[HPforGrownups] What use is Snape in the rest of the plot?

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 133002


--- Jospehine <J.Z.Dench at uel.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> The question I have then is this- if Snape is still
> on DD's side, 
> what does Harry have to gain from his allegience?
> It's not in Snape's 
> character to help Harry, so I can't see him going
> 'oh look Harry 
> here's that Horcrux you were looking for!'. Other
> than postponing 
> Voldemort's knowledge of Harry's hunt, what else can
> he offer to the 
> OoTP? 

That's the question that plagues me. One of the
biggest obstacles on the way to fully accept the Grand
Dumbledore Plan theory. What can Snape offer from his
position of Voldie's golden boy in book 7?

Assuming that book 7 will be a quest, ending in the
final duel, Snape can be useful in two ways:
1. As a punching bag for Harry to perfect his duelling
technique with a Legilimens. He will turn up on
Harry's path from time to time. When Harry finally
manages to kill him, he'll be ready to face Voldemort.
That's just too horrible to contemplate.

2. During the last stand-off, he can either push
Voldemort's hand, or take the curse intended for
Harry.

Both too obvious. Then again, JKR set us up to expect
a quest. She can surprise as again, because book 6 was
not full of strategic order meetings and full-scale
war operations everyone expected after book 5.

Irene


		
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