JKR Interview on Mugglenet; Snape = Evil?

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 134116

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oaksong" <oaksong at y...> wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > I choose to look at Snape's guilt or innocent based upon his 
entire 
> > HP history not only on fragments in the latest book. I want to 
keep 
> > an open mind as to what Rowling's verdict will be, rather than 
put 
> > all my eggs into my basket. As the H-Hr shippers have found, 
doing 
> > that only resulted in alot of broken eggs.
> > 
> > Milz
> 
> The Unbreakable Vow...
> 
> The issue of the state of the vow hinges on what would happen if 
Snape
> fails to kill DD.
> 
> If failing to kill DD would result in the death of Draco, then DD is
> automatically dead, regardless of whether or not Snape wants to do 
this.
> 
> There is also a strong suggestion that Snape is under the same kind 
of
> obediance requirement that Harry is under, from DD. DD has ordered
> Snape to kill him if the situation calls for it and DD clearly
> considers himself expendable in the effort to remove Voldemort.
> 
> Is there a possibility that Snape is also under an Unbreakable Vow 
to
> protect Harry?
> 
> Oaksong.

Possible, but we have no canon evidence of such an arrangement, do we?

Let's not forget, Snape is acting as a spy and possibly as a double 
agent--if Draco is correct. If Snape is a double agent, his life is 
in danger no matter what the final outcome is. According to "The Art 
of War" by Sun Tzu, you can use double agents---but once they have 
served their purposes, you must eliminate them because you can never 
be certain where their loyalities lie. Snape killing Dumbledore can 
be viewed as having served his purpose for Voldemort---Snape can't go 
back to the OoP after doing something like that can he? If he were to 
leave the DEs, he would be killed. Moreover, he now has the Ministry 
and the OoP after him. So, his survival prospects are dim, imo. 

Milz