21 Reasons Why Snape is a Good Guy--Let "Desperate Hope" Reign!

literature_caro literature_Caro at web.de
Wed Jul 20 10:50:33 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 133435


> I agree with this. I believe the only reason Snape did AK was
because of the Unbreakable Vow. Dumbledore knows that Snape did the
Vow (since Harry told him about it) and Snape could've told him as
well. It could be just that Snape didn't know what he was promising to
do in case Draco fails to do it, and in turn Dumbledore does not know
it as well. The pleading in Dumbledore's voice when Snape was about to
kill him could be his realizing his mistake in not investigating the
Vow further, not because he realized Snape has betrayed him... Evil
Snape, Evil Dumbledore? I hope it really isn't that way...
> 
> Benigs

I do believe that Snape betrayed Dumbeldore, though I really hate to
say that! The indication for this lies within the potion which
weakened him (and which I would like to call "the Potion of Mortal
Knowledge"). What he says there could imply that he now sees it all
real and how he would be killed. He says that he did wrong, that
people are suffering and in the end is ready to die. He even demands
being killed! I think, for Dumbledore doesn't fear death as he has
shown throughout the previous books in several little statements (best
known in the ending of the Philosopher's Stone), he rather wanted to
be killed than having the school suffering from the hunt for him.
That sounds hard I know and I really was angry with Snape, but as
Minerva says: He is a master of Occlumency!

Caro  









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