ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey? (WAS: DDM!Snape the definition)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 162557

> >>Sydney:
> > The LifeDebt Snape explains the same things as DDM!Snape because 
> > it explains the same things on the bare level of action (except   
> > of course for the Unbreakable Vow and wanting the DADA job and   
> > pretty much every single thing relating to Peter Pettigrew).

> >>Sarah:
> I think it explains the UV, for reasons I've tried to explain but   
> you may not agree with.  I think the DADA job isn't a large enigma, 
> it's Snape's version of reading the weather report to see if       
> Dumbledore has anything big in store for him in the coming year.    
> I'm unsure what problems it creates for Peter Pettigrew, could you 
> elaborate?

Betsy Hp:
Ah, the Peter Pettigrew issue.  This is the big large stinky rat 
doing the back swim in the LiD theory's chardonnay.  Because if the 
Life-Debt is sooo incredibly strong it makes Snape risk himself for 
people he despises, if the Life-Debt is such an unbreakable bit of 
magic it leads Dumbledore to decide he can now trust that evil 
Professor Snape *completely*... then how the *hell* did Peter 
Pettigrew get away with the graveyard scene at the end of GoF?!?

Because (much as this gets ignored) Snape isn't the only character 
that's been mentioned as owing his life (in a debt like way) to a 
character he dislikes.  If anything, Dumbledore is a bit more 
emphatic in saying that Peter's now got a life-debt to Harry.  
*Directly* to Harry I might add.  And yet this does nothing to stop 
Peter from assisting and brewing and giving his own right (or was it 
his left?) hand to a scheme that ends with Harry dead if all goes to 
plan.

It's not really that LiD causes problems for *Peter*, but Peter is 
certainly causing problems for LiD. <g>

Betsy Hp