Question on Snape:

[sallyaltass]

No: HPFGUIDX 156789

Sally:
> > IMO Snape is not polyjuiced and swapped, and his motives for
> > killing Dumbledore in the tower are purely because of the UV
> > he made with Narcissa re Draco, Draco could not carry out the
> > 'job' he was recruited for by LV, and so Snape had to carry
> > out the 'job' or be killed himself.
> > <snip>

Robert:
> If Snape is evil why, at the end of HBP did JK write that his face
> was twisted as if he was in as much pain as the howling dog?
>
> The bad guys like killing and destruction...and as far as we can
> tell the bad guys won at the end of HBP...so why would Snape
> be "in pain..."
>
> Everyone just needs to come to terms with the fact that he is
> essentially good...


Sally:

I apologise if you got the wrong end of the stick from my original
post, I don't particulary believe that Snape is evil, I just wanted
to make my point that I think Snape, although he detests the fact that he has to kill DD, is doing it because he has been involved in a
biding magical contract and so otherwise would lose his life.

>From reading all the posts on the subject of why Snape killed DD, it
is clear that most on the list believe that Snape and DD knew that
the end was coming, and so is it a possibility that Snape had told
DD about the UV?  Afterall, throughout HBP, DD had tried pushing HP
off Malfoy's tail.  IMO this is because Snape had already told DD
about Malfoy's recruitment into the DE, afterall Snape is in essence
a 'double agent', working both for the Order and the DE.  IMO DD was
begging Snape to go ahead with the UV's end to save Malfoy the
horror and pain of actually having to kill someone, and so then
Snape could rescue Malfoy, who had not realised what the enormity of
what joining the DE would be.