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

[dumbledore11214]

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> 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.

Alla:

Yes, Umbridge and Fake!Moody planned Harry's murders, Snape did not 
plan Harry murder, although even that can turn out to be true yet. 
Snape did things to Harry which did not include planning his murder. 
There are many bad things that could be done to the person without 
planning his murder. 

Carol:
<SNIP> 
By 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
>

Alla:

Snipping Saving Harry in PS/SS -  too many rounds on that one. :)

No, Snape could not have acted on Voldemort's orders in PoA, I 
agree, he could have acted on his own orders though. And what is 
better way to get in DD good graces, when hoping that he won't 
interfer in execution of Sirius Black, then to deliver Trio on 
stretchers back to castle?