Trial of Severus Snape - WAS Re: Harry IS Snape.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 141335

"colebiancardi" <muellem at b...> wrote:

> you are forgetting a little thing called
> the Unbreakable Vow that Snape took.  

I certainly haven't forgotten about that vow! Outside of Dumbledore's
murder itself that vow is the best evidence we have that Snape is more
than nasty and unpleasant, he is evil. I hope you're not suggesting
that we should forgive Snape because his hands were tied due to that
vow he choose to make so he had to murder Dumbledore. It's like a man
killing his parents and then asking the court for mercy because he's
an orphan. 

> how could you not see what would happen on
> the tower if Snape hadn't done what he did? 

If Snape had not made that vow Dumbledore would be alive and the Death
Eaters dead.

> Hard choices in War. 

But not hard enough. Dumbledore seemed willing to risk EVERYTHING to
save a slime ball like Draco, but if your theory is correct he didn't
seem to give a damn about Harry, or Snape for that matter, because he
kept Harry in the dark, again. Dumbledore must have known Harry well
enough by now to know he would never rest until Snape was dead.

> DD is a wise wizard who probably knows more
> about the situation up on the tower better
> than Harry. 

I don't think so. Dumbledore was very surprised to find Death Eaters
in the castle that night but Harry was not, Harry was expecting it, he
even knew the room the trouble would come from.

> Most of DD's mistakes have not been that huge, IMHO. 

Dumbledore hired Quirrell, in fact he hired 4 homicidal teachers in 6
years. Dumbledore had no idea what Harry's father and his friends were
up to. Dumbledore froze Harry on that tower. Dumbledore trusted
Snape [....] 

And speaking of Quirrell, Snape suspected him from day one and then at
the Quidditch game when Harry almost died he knew for sure, but
apparently he never said a word about it to Dumbledore. In most
schools a teacher trying to murder a student is frowned on, yet
Dumbledore took no action against him, he even left the school leaving
Harry no protection against Quirrell. To the day he died I don't think
Dumbledore ever knew Quirrell tried to kill Harry at that game because
Snape never told him. Why?   

> He could not control Sirius from going
> to MoM - was that a mistake?

Yes, a HUGE mistake as Dumbledore himself admits. If Dumbledore had
not kept Harry in the dark about the Prophecy neither he nor Sirius
would have any reason to go to the ministry and Sirius would be alive
today. 

> Yes, DD has made mistakes, but to have a 
> colossial mistake in judgement, over 16 
> years, with Snape is more than a mistake
> it makes DD a foolish, unwise wizard. 

If it makes you feel any better, Snape is a very very smart man and I
think he fooled Voldemort just as badly as he fooled Dumbledore.

Eggplant