[HPforGrownups] Re: OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 157027



wynnleaf:
>If Snape is DDM, the commitment that he has shown to following
>Dumbledore's direction goes far, far beyond agreeing with his
>>platform and goals.  Wow, so far beyond it hardly bears the
>comparison.  Snape risks his life continually based on what
>Dumbledore thinks is the right move to make.  Dumbledore thought
>Snape should return to Voldemort as a spy and Snape did it, no
>questions asked.


PJ:

It almost feels like we're reading two different stories....

Don't you think your point of view sweeps Snape's importance to the 
storyline under the rug?  I mean, to do everything that Dumbledore tells him 
without any input gives Snape no credit for the intelligence and cunning 
we're shown he possesses over and over again!  Why would JKR bother to show 
us this if he was nothing more than Dumbledore's lackey?   No, rather than 
just doing Dumbledore's bidding, I think he is deeply involved in 
*formulating* those plans - working in tandem rather than just doing what 
he's told.

I don't like Snape and I don't think Snape is DDM! but I see him as much 
more actively involved than you do.  It's only logical that if you're 
expected to do the dirty, dangerous work then you'd insist on hashing that 
plan out *in depth* before sticking your neck out in any way.  You wouldn't 
simply follow someone else blindly - not unless you were suicidal....  In 
some ways he knows LV/DE's better than Dumbledore does and his input would 
certainly be necessary for any plan to work.

He's no one's puppet which is really the whole *point* of OFH!Snape.

PJ