Contra Severum

[snipsnapsnurr]

No: HPFGUIDX 134492

Hekatesheadband:

 > The most 
telling elemement of this for me is that by making off with
> Draco, Snape is almost certainly depriving him of his best chance of
> safety and salvation. Security at Hogwarts is imperfect, but it's 
> safer than anywhere else, and I can't imagine that McGonagall would 
> refuse Draco sanctuary from the Death Eaters. Voldemort won't be 
> happy with Draco, won't be nice to him, and whatever else Snape may 
> be, he's not so stupid as to think he alone can provide better 
> protection than all the Hogwarts staff. Karfaroff, an older and 
more 
> experienced wizard than Snape, was wondered at for surviving a 
year, 
> rather than the expected few days. In other words: Snape doesn't 
> mean Draco well. It seems as close as can be to certain that 
> Dumbledore wanted to save Draco from becoming a Death Eater; it 
> doesn't necessarily seem that this is Snape's intent.
> 


You've got a little bit of a logical fallacy going on here. You 
believe that Snape is returning to Voldemort, which may or may not be 
true. I don't think he is, but there really isn't any way to prove it 
either way that I can see. The thing is, you can't use the fact that 
he is taking Draco with him as additional evidence that Snape is 
returning to Voldemort. I guess returning to Voldemort with Draco 
would be more evil than going back without him, but the fact that he 
is taking Draco with him wherever it is that he is going doesn't make 
it any more likely that where he is going is back to Voldemort. You 
are sort of using your conclusion as evidence for itself.

Also you say that security is imperfect at Hogwarts, but it is safer 
than anywhere else. Maybe so. On the other hand, everybody knows 
where Hogwarts is. Nobody knows where Snape is going.

By the way, I never really posted much before the latest book and I 
have been defending Snape tooth and nail all week and have probably 
come across as a hard core Snapophile. Actually I can't stand him. 
There is a lot in the series about the power of love. I think Snape 
is the counter to that. He represents the power of hate. And it is 
powerful. I think Snape is motivated entirely by a burning hatred of 
Voldemort. He will contribute a lot to the final defeat of Voldemort 
but in the end his own hate and rage will destroy him. I see him as 
sort of Ahab-like.

snipsnapsnurr