Could Snape ever be a hero?

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 135606

 
> Saidicam29

> There's one other thing that stuck out to me, in this same scene, 
> that also gives me a little hope for Snape.  Forgive me, I don't 
> have my book in front of me, so I am paraphrasing by memory.  
> Someone hits Harry with a spell, causing Harry great pain and I 
> would assume eventual death.  Snape saves harry!  Now, his 
apparent 
> excuse is that they had been ordered not to kill Harry becuase V 
> wants to do that himself.  However, if Snape truely hated Harry as 
> much as lets on (I'm not saying he likes Harry, mind you), and he 
> hated DD and was truely on V's side...then why would he care if 
> someone else broke V's orders and killed Harry?  Snape's butt 
> would't be on the line, and he would have Harry dead to boot!  I 
> found that odd if Snape truely was on the DE's side.  

I can think of at least one reason. Snape is smart enough to have 
put together the prophecy from what little he heard the same way Ron 
and Hermione did. He might want to keep Harry alive to eventually 
take down Voldemort, trusting the prophecy to give Harry the power, 
so that Snape can step into the power vacumn left behind. With DD 
and Voldemort dead, Snape would have a lot of room to play Dark 
Lord. Playing both sides basically.

I would agree that you can read the Harry/Snape duel as instruction 
or advice on snapes part, but you can also read it as gloating.  And 
there is that one spell that Snape casts on Harry that knocks him to 
the ground. Who knows what else could have happened if Buckbeak 
hadn't shown up.

  As for him knocking the other professor out in 
> his office...I'm thinking that (possibly) he did so to ensure that 
> he wasn't followed to the tower.  If he knew what was going on, 
and 
> that he might/would have to kill DD up there...having another 
> professor would interfere with the plan because surely they would 
> try to stop him, or would be killed in the process.

But the bottom of tower was charmed so only DE could go up there. I 
doubt Flitwick could have torn down the ward in the middle of a 
firefight soon enough to make a difference in the battle.

phoenixgod2000