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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 141438

> Amiable Dorsai

> Look at it from Snape's point of view:  Voldemort is up to 
something
> involving a mole--Draco--at Hogwarts itself.  He doesn't know what 
it
> is, but judging by the normally cool and collected Narcissa's 
reaction
> to it, it's big.  So he risks his life to find out.  He pretends to
> already know what Narcissa is talking about in hopes that she will
> spill her guts and to keep Bella from preventing her from doing so.
> 
> Narcissa brings up the Unbreakable Vow.  If he refuses to take it, 
the
> discussion is over, he will not learn what Draco is up to--so, in 
for
> a penny, in for a pound--he takes the Vow.  Certainly, he's risking
> his life, but *that's what Snape does*.  His whole life as a spy is
> one big risk.  The Vow is just one more.  

Magpie:

But Narcissa is going to *tell* Snape what the plan is until he 
*stops* her by saying he already knows.  He doesn't need to take a 
UV to get Narcissa to talk.  She shows up at his house with the 
intention of telling him exactly what's going on and asking for 
help.  He could just as easily let her tell him the plan and then 
said she shouldn't have told him, but as it happened he already knew 
everything she told him anyway.  

-m