Snape's Attack on Flitwick

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 139497

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
>   mhbobbin:
> > Although I lean to believing that Snape killed Dumbledore on 
> > Dumbledore's orders, and that Snape isn't really working for 
> > Voldemort, I am most troubled by my inability to reconcile 
Snape's attack on Flitwick with this theory.
> 
> Valky:
> (snip) In COS Hermione relates that she was told Flitwick
> was a duelling Champion when he was young. But then... rumours 
being> what they are... (major snip) I am almost inclined to
> believe that the teachers themselves started the rumour to prevent
> Gilderoy asking Flitwick to be his duelling partner... > (snip)I 
actually don't think we can. Flitwicks
> protection tends to remind of the Cornish Pixies that Hermione 
took to
> order almost singlehandedly in COS, the ones that Seamus laughed 
off
> as silly. with that to start I am already getting a sense that 
Flitty
> is just that, flitty. The foreshadowing indicates that he doesn't 
have
> big guns in battle > (Snip snip snip)> Not really on the fence, 
but on the fence... not...
Valky

mhbobbin replies:

Valiant attempt, Valky, but Flitwick's battle hardiness (assuming 
he's weak and that canon deliberately misleads) does not give Snape 
a legitimate pro-Order anti-Voldemort reason to take Flitwick out 
unless you are saying Snape knocks Flitwick out of the battle "for 
his own good".  This seems like a stretch.  At that point Snape 
doesn't know --I believe--exactly what's going on or what Draco's 
mission is. Dumbledore had not called on him--as he had other Order 
members--to protect Hogwarts that evening.  And Draco had not 
apprised Snape of needing Death Eater assistance that evening. 
Without knowing the situaion, Snape pre-emptively removes Flitwick 
from battle.

Unless Flitwick truly just fainted and it wasn't Snape's fault at 
all.

Still too much mental gymnastics to fit this event into Good!Snape 
theory for me.
mhbobbin