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

[M. Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 141393

colebiancardi  wrote:
"you are forgetting a little thing called the Unbreakable Vow that Snape took.  He would have died before being able to do a darn thing to the Death Eaters - Draco had failed; the UV would have kicked in. If Snape turned his back and started to kill DE's instead of *killing* Dumbledore, Snape would have probably dropped dead in his tracks. And then what?  - Snape dead, Harry can't move, DE's still in the tower. DE's would kill Dumbledore, who was weak & probably one or two minutes from death anyway.  Harry would be released - would
have, in a blind rage - just like the rage we saw him go after Snape - tried to take on the DE's up in the tower with a werewolf.  What are the odds there?  No Snape to protect Harry (yes! Snape protected Harry - he wouldn't let the other DE's curse Harry).  So, tally it up - DD
dead, Snape dead, Harry dead.  End of story."  
 
 
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I agree with colebiancardi's very well thought-through analysis. I also agree with Juli17 and Claudia that we really don't know enough back story to judge whether Snape murdered DD on the order of DD or LV. I am leaning on this being pre-arranged by DD; however, I must admit my confidence was quite shakened by JKR's interview on July 16 (excerpt below), which makes me wonder if JKR did really mean it when she had DD tell Harry that since DD is more clever than most wizards, his mistakes tend to be bigger.

 From Mugglenet.com: JK Rowling interview July 16, 2005.
ES: How can someone so -
JKR: Intelligent -
ES: be so blind with regard to certain things?
JKR: Well, there is information on that to come, in seven. But I would say that I think it has been demonstrated, particularly in books five and six that immense brainpower does not protect you from emotional mistakes and I think Dumbledore really exemplifies that. In fact, I would tend to think that being very, very intelligent might create some problems and it has done for Dumbledore, because his wisdom has isolated him, and I think you can see that in the books, because where is his equal, where is his confidante, where is his partner? He has none of those things. He’s always the one who gives, he’s always the one who has the insight and has the knowledge. So I think that, while I ask the reader to accept that McGonagall is a very worthy second in command, she is not an equal. You have a slightly circuitous answer, but I can't get much closer than that.
ES: No, that was a good answer.
MA: It's interesting about Dumbledore being lonely.
JKR: I see him as isolated, and a few people have said to me rightly I think, that he is detached. My sister said to me in a moment of frustration, it was when Hagrid was shut up in his house after Rita Skeeter had published that he was a half-breed, and my sister said to me, “Why didn't Dumbledore go down earlier, why didn't Dumbledore go down earlier?” I said he really had to let Hagrid stew for a while and see if he was going to come out of this on his own because if he had come out on his own he really would have been better. "Well he's too detached, he's too cold, it's like you,” she said!" [Laughter] By which she meant that where she would immediately rush in and I would maybe stand back a little bit and say, “Let's wait and see if he can work this out.” I wouldn't leave him a week. I'd leave him maybe an afternoon. But she would chase him into the hut.
 

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