[HPforGrownups] Re: snape matter...

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 162263

potioncat wrote:
> Because he's Ever So Evil (ESE) and has always been serving LV.
> 
> OR
> 
> Because he's Dumbledore's Man (DDM). DD was sacrificing himself for 
> Draco and/or the wizarding world and that's what DD was asking on the 
> tower when he said, "Severus, please."
> 
> OR
> 
> Because Snape's Out For Himself (OFH) and every step of the way he's 
> made a decision based on what is best for him at the time. Besides, 
> if he didn't kill DD on the tower, Snape would have dropped dead. 
> (Remember the Unbreakable Vow)

Bart:
	And, of course, combinations thereof, such as, he IS evil, but is 
willing to side with the Order against a far greater evil (there are 
other members of the Order who are not good guys, like Dung). I am also 
of the school that Dumbledore was going to die soon anyway, and had 
arranged with Snape to kill him. A major clue to this is Snape's anger 
at Harry; Snape was running away, and he is a man with tremendous 
self-control, and here he is showing Harry exactly what he needs to work 
on to fight Voldemort. Either Snape is showing uncharacteristic 
foolishness ad loss of self-control, or he's telling Harry, "If I get 
you angry enough, maybe you'll make yourself barely adequate to fight 
Tommy!"

	Bart