Suicidal!Snape and the Curse of DADA-- LONG!!

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141917

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
>
> 
> > colebiancardi again:
> > 
> > Hmmm...I don't think Snape wants any curse, nor do I believe 
Snape is 
> > suicidal.  I think that he takes a lot of risks for the greater 
good 
> > in defeating Voldy, but I think if he can figure out a way to 
live, 
> > he will do it.  If Snape's remorse to DD included killing 
himself, 
> > then what is stopping Snape from offing himself over the last 16 
> > years?  
> 
> Part of the theory is that he made some sort of promise to 
Dumbledore
> (not an Unbreakable Vow.. that would be a little counterproductive!)
> that he would not take his own life.  I mean, the guy's one of the
> world's leading experts on poisons, clearly he could bump himself 
off
> without a lot of hassle if it was that simple. Partly I think Snape
> wants to go out a hero, so he could have viewed being dramatically
> outed as a double-agent as being rich in possibilities for that. 
> Perhaps I should call it Deathwish!Snape, instead. 
>
> It just seems to me that Snape being after the DADA job is hard to
> separate from Snape wanting the DADA curse.  If he didn't know about
> the curse, we're back to the lame, "Chemistry teacher who's 
desperate
> to teach Physics" scenario, which is just plain lacking in emotional
> content.  But I find it hard to believe that Dumbeldore DIDN'T tell
> him about the Curse.

Snape may have a deathwish, but that is quite different from being 
suicidal.  I can see Deathwish!Snape in the sense that he will do 
anything, even *tearing his soul*, to tip the balance for a favorable 
outcome of the war to the Order.  I can see Deathwish!Snape talking 
the DADA job, knowing there was a curse (I do believe he knows there 
is a curse on the job - he hasn't worked at Hogwarts for 16 years and 
gone as a student for 7 yrs without noticing that DADA teachers never 
last more than one year and probably DD told him about it) that would 
put him back full-time in LV's lair.  I can see Deathwish!Snape 
running a role as a double-agent.  But to me, Deathwish!Snape is not 
careless or reckless with his life, but he knows that his job could 
cost him his life and he accepts that.

>  > 
> I have a smaller theory to offer, for those who don't like their
> Snapes suicidal-- he COULD have just viewed the 'leaving Hogwarts'
> part of the curse as the bonus, and his ritual application was 
a 'take
> this job and shove it' gesture.  What that lacks is the explanatory
> scope of deathwish!Snape, which also covers the Vow and the tale of
> remorse, as well as being more in keeping with the crazy melodrama 
of
> the HP universe.
>

nah.  I don't think he thinks it is a bonus, because he is going from 
the pan into the fire(Voldemort's camp).  He is a wanted man now and 
if he is DDM!Snape, he is going to have an uphill battle convicing 
the Order that he is still on their side - unless there is someone 
else in the Order that knows Snape's role.  I find it hard to believe 
that DD would leave Snape hanging in the wind like this, without a 
life-line.  As far as the remorse tale, I personally like my theory
(yup, plugging it again - haven't changed my mind on it yet) with 
Regulus and Snape.  

colebiancardi