[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 6202

[Darrell Harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 133692



--- HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com wrote:

> There are 25 messages in this issue.
> 
> Topics in this digest:
> 
>       1. Snape in Spinner's End and Snape in OOTP
>            From: torigyrl at aol.com
>      
> 

>    From: torigyrl at aol.com
> Subject: Snape in Spinner's End and Snape in OOTP
> 
> 
> I am currently on my second reading of HBP.  I
> finished re-reading Spinner's 
> End
> and I noticed an omission by Rowling.  Obviously
> Snape isn't going to talk 
> about his involvement with the DOM in front of
> Narcissa and Bellatrix. However, 
> Rowling doesn't seem to be addressing this(along
> with -many- other things) 
> anywhere in the rest of the book.
>  
> >  
> It was because of Snape's contacting members of the
> order that they arrived 
> at the DOM in the first place.  That throws a large
> wrench in his supposed Dark 
> Lord's works.  Voldemort obviously isn't aware of
> Snape's role in contacting 
> Dumbledore or Snape would have been AK'd the next
> time he appeared in front of 
> Voldemort. 
>  
>  This contradicts the impression that Rowling is
> trying to make about Severus 
> in Spinner's End.  Yes he was a double agent and a
> nasty person, but Snape 
> -really- didn't have to contact the order.  He could
> have just told Dumbledore 
> that he followed up on what Harry had said by
> contacting Sirius and found that 
> Sirius was fine.
>  
> I thought this book was supposed to be about answers
> and not more red 
> herrings. 
>  
> Tori


I think Snape is the number one red herring of the
story and must continue till book 7. As much as I
dislike the character my reading of HBP stills leaves
me believing he is Dumbledore's man. If Dumbledore is
really dead (and the image of the pheonix Harry saw at
the funeral service may lead otherwise)then I am
convinced he did it on the order of Dumbledore
himself. I don't know why but the battle with Harry at
the end didn't lead me to think Snape was trying to
harm him but doing his best not to while maintaining
his cover as a dedicated death eater.

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