[HPforGrownups] Hard time for Snape?(was Re: Draco the Death Eaters and Voldemort)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 139985

I mean, let's face it, instead of going to jail as a member of 
terrorist organization, he got a nice job as Hogwarts professor 
under the protection  of most powerful wizard of all time.

I think Snape had  it VERY good all those years before Voldemort 
returned. True, after Voldemort returned  he may have  been forced 
to do some unpleasant things, but before,as Marianne said ( I 
think) dear Severus  got a himself a very nice deal, IMO.

He did  not teach in the position he preferred? It is still much 
better, IMO, to have a paying job than sitting in Azkaban in close 
proximity to dementors.

He was protecting Harry? Well, IMO, it is arguable, but again, even 
if it is so, he was doing what teacher is required  to do - namely 
protect the safety of his students.

JMO,

Alla



Sherry now:

Thanks, Alla, for reminding me who originally pointed out that dear sevvy
didn't have to spend all those years before Voldemort's return fooling
Dumbledore.  Was it Marry Ann who said that?  I wanted to bring that out
again.  Many Good Snape theorists have said it would be harder for Snape to
fool Dumbledore for 16 years, and that he only had to fool Voldemort for a
few years.  But it is really true, that he only had to fooled Dumbledore
once when he returned to him with his supposed remorse, and then only for
the two years since Voldemort's return.  Not all that difficult for a good
spy and someone skilled at occlumency.  After all, there wasn't anything
going on during those years, no death eaters, no evil wizard.  He could sit
back, relax, teach and abuse his students with no pressure to appear to be
anything but a reformed death eater.  the real fun began when Voldemort
returned.

As for him protecting Harry, the only absolute time I know of is in PS./SS,
and Dumbledore tells us it was because of his debt to James.  i can't think
of anything he's done since to protect Harry directly.  I don't count the
shrieking shack in POA, because that event is open to interpretation.  for
me, it's a sign of his obsession with trying to get Sirius and Lupin kissed
by the dementors and not much on saving the trio.

sherry