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

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No: HPFGUIDX 141350

"colebiancardi" <muellem at b...> wrote:
 
> Really?  Evil? 

Yes really evil.

> If anything, I think he lacked some foresight 
> I don't believe he saw the third part of 
> the vow coming.

Well, I certainly hope JKR doesn't take Snape in that direction. My
Snape, the evil but brilliant criminal mastermind who fooled the two
greatest wizards of the age for 16 years at least earns my respect.
Your Snape, the brain dead dumb comically inept secret agent just
earns my contempt; I keep thinking of Inspector Clouseau and Maxwell
Smart. 

> However, it may have been what DD ordered
> Snape to do - to win & cement the Malfoy's
> trust in Snape.  The UV did that. 

The only people who do things like that are characters in very bad
fantasy novels, nobody else. Can you imagine book 7 with that premise
as the foundation? I can't.

> We don't know the whole story up in
> the tower yet. 

We never know the whole story about anything but I don't know of any
great mystery that went on in that tower on that night that needs
explaining, the events were tragic but clear.

> If there had been no vow, and Snape 
> killed Dumbledore, then I would be 
> more in your camp.  

The vow in no way excuses Snape's treachery, not one bit! Nobody put a
gun to his head, he agreed to make it. 

> How do we know that Snape never told
> DD about Quirrell? 

I would think trying to murder a student would be grounds for
dismissal, or a least a pay cut, but Dumbledore did nothing except
leave Harry and Quirrell alone in the castle while he went off to
London. And in 6 books Dumbledore never once talks about the time
Quirrell tried to kill Harry at a Quidditch game. I don't think Snape
could have told him. 

> Sirius knew better as well, but he went anyway.  

Sirius was in no more danger than any other member of the Order when
they went to the Ministry, in fact most of them were injured it's just
that Sirius was the one injured the most and died.

Eggplant