Mr. Snape, not Saint Snape

[tbernhard2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 135736

Cindy wrote:
> Since Snape is still alive, he either killed Dumbledore, or he faked 
> his way through the Unbreakable Vow. I think it has to be either one 
> or the other, but I have been wrong before! 

Albus has passed away, passed on, he has expired, he has gone on,
crossed over, he is dead. Severus AKed the old man. Albus could not
fool the Merfolk, the Centaurs, the Wizard World all at once. And if
he could, and did, for what cause was this great, this universal
deception? I don't get it. If they all think he's gone, what advantage
is there? Perhaps, IF you assume Snape is the supreme confidente of
Albus and knows about the horcruxes, and possibly the prophecy, AND
you assume Harry is not informed of this super confidence for a good
reason, AND you assume that Albus living a few more minutes or hours
would somehow compromise the main plan to destroy the horcruxes, then
there could be a bone fide Saint Snape reason to AK him. Another
possibility is that Albus, at that moment told Snape everything, in
his mind. But that still leaves Snape's double agent role to be
explained. Naturally, I don't buy any of that.

As I have asked before and ask again to the list - what would explain
Snape's revulsion and hatred, Albus changed tone (such that it
startled Potter) on the Astronomy Tower? In spite of vague comparisons
to mercy killing, there has been no explanation that makes sense,
other than, perhaps, that Snape has broken under the general distrust
of the faculty, students, of the whole wizard world, and holds the old
man in contempt. Albus has forced, or tried to force, respect for
Snape, because Albus is trying to make Snape, the abused kid Snape,
who claimed he wanted to get better, who expressed remorse, a better
person? It has failed dismally, because of Snape's fear, his self-hatred.

If Snape liked Lily, or Lily was nice to him, and he called her
"Mudblood", and this is his worst memory, and the "mudblood" part the
worst part, as I've said before, then this indicates a very hurt, very
hurtful human being, who has had a tendancy to lash out at people who
he cares about. Sounds like abuse symptoms. It comes out a bit the way
he relates to students, don't you think - though, apparently, this can
be moot.

When Albus tells Snape "you know what I must now ask you to do" at the
end of GOF, that conversation doesn't pick up again, in our
information, until Hagrid's overheard convesation "what if I don't
want to do it anymore?" This, I submit, is what Snape and Dumbledore
are talking about. Not the Unbreakable Vow, because the language
doesnt't fit that scenario AT ALL.

dan