Snape kills V

[tbernhard2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 135459

Janice wrote:
> Do you think that Snape played both sides of the game for his own
benefit?  
> He's destroyed Dumbledor, he may be able to destroy V. by slyly
"helping" 
> Harry kill V.  Harry would be oblivious to Snape's final purpose,
i.e.: Snape 
> wants to become the most powerful -- the new lord.
> 
> Then Harry and Snape have to have it out.

Yes yes, precisely what I have been working up to posting, preparing
the audience, as it were. But Janice, since you've gone and proposed
it, here's

Snape Learns About Prophecy, Then He, Emboldened, Begins Itching to
Covertly Help Horcrux Acquisition, Remaining Deviously Set Toward
Usurption of Power, Intending Domination

SLAP THE BITCH HARD, STUPID

The only point I haven't posted on the two entries on HP4GU is that
Snape knows about the Horlicks because of the burnt arm (didn't get
that from cooking) and the potion sickness. It's too attractive a
theory to let go - it explains his creepy, self-important behaviour at
Spinner's End though...

BTW - "not wanting to do it anymore" implies a choice to stop doing
something. The unbreakable vow is not that kind of thing, so the
overheard argument Hagrid mentions cannot be about AKing Albus. Also,
"taking too much for granted" just doesn't make sense as also directly
related to AKing Dumbledore. If you can make if fit, please show me.

The conversation overheard by Hagrid seems more to be about what Albus
told Snape he "must now ask him to do" at the end of GOF, not the
Unbreakable Vow.

Also, why does Albus tone change (so much so that it startles Harry)
when Snape arrives? Has Dumbledore seen the betrayal, just then? Do we
really believe Dumbledore has agreed that he himself needs to die?

Is he so limited that that choice would ever be the only one possible?

What is gained by Dumbledore being dead, in the big picture? According
to canon, Tom is now free of the only one he ever feared. But does
that justify Dumbledore's suicide? All the little points - getting
into Bella's good books, getting into Tom's good books, saving little
Draco Malfoy, really, all of these could not be done without Albus
grasping death?

Oh, I think there may have been an agreement. But I think it got
compromised, and Albus knew it, at the end.

And the newest painting in the headmaster's office will says "oops".

dan