The DDM or ESE Snape debate Continues!!(was:Re: A couple of little theories!)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 162318

Jenni from Alabama wrote: 
> I truly feel that LV has Snape 'save' Harry so it will look like he 
> is really on the Order's side. The whole while he is doing LV's 
> bidding. Harry is not the one that shows instant animosity towards 
> Snape. Snape is cruel to Harry right off the bat.

Carol responds:
I won't respond to the "cruelty" to Harry charge, since Snape's
sarcasm hardly compares to Umbridge's detentions and Dementors or
Fake!Moody's sending him to Voldemort and then attempting to kill him
himself.

But Snape saves Harry from Quirrell!mort before Voldemort has
returned. He's trying to thwart Quirrell, not help him, whether or not
he knows or suspects that Quirrell is under Voldemort's control. So he
can hardly trying to save Harry so it looks like he's on the Order's
side. The Order hasn't even been reestablished yet, and Snape did not
have to cast the countercurse to save Harry. No one else did anything.
Snape could have pretended to be as ignorant of what was happening as
they were and let Harry die. Instead, he saved Harry. And Dumbledore
wasn't even watching. byt the same token, in PoA he conjures
stretchers to take HRH and Sirius Black, his enemy, back to Hogwarts.
He didn't have to do that. He could have left them to the doubtful
mercies of the werewolf and the Dementors, who would have returned
when the threat of the person casting the Patronus was gone and they
sensed helplessness again. In PoA, too, Voldemort had not returned and
Snape could not have been acting on his orders.

Carol, glad to see Snape posts dominating the list again