ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey? /Could Snape take on four DE on the Tower?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 162663

> > > wynnleaf
> > > You speak as though the choice to "save Harry and Draco and get 
the
> > > DE's out of Hogwarts" was something within Snape's grasp, and 
did 
> > not
> > > need to include Dumbledore's death. 
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > I have more respect of Snape's fighting abilities.
> 
> wynnleaf
> Your respect notwithstanding, where's the canon evidence?  I did not
> see that you produced an ounce of it.  So he could win against Harry
> or Lockhart in one-on-one combat.  Where's the evidence he had a 
*good
> chance* of winning against 4 death eaters, while protecting teens at
> the same time?
> 
> And remember, the ESE!Snape or OFH!Snape theories require that
> Dumbledore think there's a good chance he'll win, too, otherwise
> Dumbledore's "Severus please... (anything other than 'AK me')" is
> asking Snape to seriously risk Harry and Draco's lives.
<SNIP>

Alla:

Do I have direct canon scene showing Snape fighting off four people? 
Of course not, but have I seen enough of Snape skills to make an 
assumption that he would indeed have a good chance to do so?

Yes, I believe I do. I pretty much agree with what Quick Silver says 
here about Snape's skill, quoted by Carol ( Yahoomort messed up 
threading, so cannot find the post itself).

Keep in mind, I am not saying that this was a 100% chance, but big 
chance, yes, I believe so and even if it was not a 100%, I believe 
**good** Snape owed it to Dumbledore and Harry and Draco to try.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/162317

Quick_Silver:
> I disagree that Snape couldn't have saved Dumbledore on Tower (in
the context of their being to many Des). <snip evidence for
Dumbledore's skill>
On the Tower we have 3 wizards (and the brother sister
> pair are not exactly amazing duelists...I think Harry beats the
> brother twice during the chase sequence?), a werewolf, and Draco.
> What's more the Death Eaters, even the werewolf, are described as
> being cowed by Snape. Snape's supposed to be a master of Defense
> against the Dark Arts, skilled at non-verbal magic, has his own
> spells (including Sectumsempra), the Death Eaters are fixated on
> Dumbledore (Amycus's eyes and wand don't even leave Dumbledore when
> he talks to Snape), and the Death Eaters seem genuinely intimidated
> by Snape.
>
> So Snape doesn't have to duel the Death Eaters on the Tower he could
> simply crush them. It's not like their expecting him to turn on 
them.
>

Alla:

Now, as you see Quick silver makes a different conclusion from that 
and believes that Snape could not have saved DD anyways, but since we 
are talking about Snape's skills, that part of his/her post I agree 
with.


JMO,

Alla