Does Snape want Harry to be expelled? WAS: RE: Bullying

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 141023

Magda:
>If Snape seriously wanted Harry expelled, he'd have arranged it in
>OOTP; Umbridge would have pounced on any excuse to expel Harry.  If
>Snape is evil, why doesn't he cozy up to Umbridge and give her an
>excuse?  Any excuse?  Inventing an excuse? She'd have accepted it.


PJ replies:
There's no canon for it it either way that I can find but I have a theory.  
<g>

It could be that, knowing Hogwarts itself didn't accept Umbridge as 
headmaster (she couldn't get into the office)  he took a different tactic in 
OOtP and, rather than make Dumbledore suspicious (again?) he decided baiting 
Sirius into carelessness would set Harry up pretty good to be LV's pawn.

There's always more than one way to get what you want if you're smart enough 
to figure it out.  And Snape is very smart...

PJ (3rd post today - all done)