In defense of Snape (from a Snape hater).

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 134140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107"
<eggplant107 at h...> wrote:
> "curlyhornedsnorkack" <easimm at y...> wrote:
> 
> > So Snape  killing Dumbledore was actually
> > good for the OOTP because Snape kept his cover. 
> 
> That just doesn't make sense to me, it doesn't seem in character
that
> Dumbledore would ask anyone to split his soul and become a murderer
> under any circumstances. And if Snape did discover something useful
> about Voldemort who in the Order could he tell about it, who would
> believe him?

Pippin:
I don't think Dumbledore intended to die. I think he trusted that
Snape's AK would not be strong enough to kill him, and I do 
believe it wasn't. AK victims die with their eyes open and they
simply collapse on the spot. They don't get blasted into the air.
The curse failed,  IMO, ,just as Harry's attempt to crucio Bella did, 
because Snape didn't really mean it. And what of the vow?

Snape agreed to take on the task that the Dark Lord had ordered
Draco to perform.  Narcissa says quite plainly that she thinks
Draco's mission, as ordered by the Dark Lord, is to fail. 

I think Dumbledore tried to fake his own death and didn't quite
bring it off. The liquid in the basin was a slow poison and it
caught up with him on the way down. In that
case, it would have been Dumbledore himself who revealed the
truth to Harry, when it was safe, that is, when all the horcruxes
had been located and destroyed thanks to the information Snape
is now in a position to get. Meanwhile it would be much too
dangerous for Harry to know the truth about Snape -- his
mind is too open, too vulnerable to Voldemort, so it's essential
that Harry believe whatever the Order wants Voldemort to think.


Pippin