Snape's timing and the supposedly missing five hours (Was: Interpretation)

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Pippin:
Um, then Snape wouldn't know about Harry's vision, and he  wouldn't have any 
idea that 
Harry was trying to get to the DoM. He'd  report that Harry was lost in the 
forest, the Order 
would go looking for  him (and probably get entangled with the centaurs), and 
Lucius 
would have  obtained the prophecy for his master. In fact it's hard to 
understand why  ESE!
Snape wouldn't  have ignored, or pretended to ignore,  what  Harry was trying 
to tell him 
and done just  that.



Excellent point, Pippin! I hadn't thought of it before, but how very easy  for
Snape to simply ignore Harry's plea. Even if Harry managed to survive  in
the end, Snape can just claim he didn't understand what Harry was  trying
to tell him. Harry himself didn't think Snape had gotten his  message. Also, 
there's no real point for an ESE!Snape to go through  all kinds of contrived 
"worrying" or even bothering to notify the Order at all about the  DoM, when 
he could have just have whistled his way down to his dungeon and  waited
for Harry to meet his deserved doom, via Umbridge or Voldemort. 
 
My biggest problem with ESE!Snape (or even OFH!Snape) is how often
he acts in Harry's best interest, the Order's best interest,  Dumbledore's
best interest, when it *isn't* necessary. He doesn't have to save  Harry
from Quirrel, he doesn't have to notify the Order about the DoM, he 
doesn't have to save Dumbledore from the Ring horcrux, he doesn't
have to give Umbridge fake veritaserum, he could probably "mess up"
Lupin's wolfsbane potion and then deem it too hard to make, etc, 
etc. He can avoid all of it, and not jeopardize his position. 
 
Why doesn't Snape act like a good little ESE character, sit back and
smirk gleefully while everything goes to hell around  him, then accept
Voldemort's grateful rewards? If he is ESE, he's really bad at it. And, 
like some who find DDM almost impossible to accept, I'm going to need
a *very* good explanation for all Snape's lapses if JKR does make him
ESE in the end. (Not doubting that JKR could do it if she wanted, but 
not sure why she'd bother one-noting the character after all this.)
 
Julie 
 
 
 
 
 


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