ESE to DDM!Snape was Re: ESEDDM!Snape

[lucianam73]

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> Alla:
> > No, Nora is right. JKR calls him deeply horrible person. 
> 
> Bart:
> 	This goes to what is becoming my favorite theory about Snape; he IS 
> evil, but considers Voldemort such a major menace that he is willing to 
> ally himself with the Order. Consider, for example, a con artist who 
> takes advantage of the greed of others falling upon a den of
terrorists. 
> If he helps out the government, he is no less evil; it's just that
he is 
> willing to help stop an even greater evil.
> 


lucianam:

Hey I was thinking about something that fits with this (don't be
offended Bart as my idea is a bit wacky).

Let us assume Snape is very, very horrible and EVERYTHING he told
Bellatrix in chapter 2 of HBP is true to boot. Everything, including
his lies to Dumbledore, the Emmeline Vance murder and so on. 

So, some point during HBP Snape finally does what he pretended to have
done
almost 16 years ago: he decides to change sides and work against
Voldemort. And I think
 what causes this turn in his motivations is his learning that Harry
is the "Chosen One", the boy with "power to vanquish the Dark Lord".

This is just a wacky little idea, of course, and it's sprung from the
fact that we have a mention of spiders in both moments when Harry's
status as "The Chosen One" is spoken aloud. The Weasleys' broom shed
and Aragog's funeral. Of course there's no mention of actual spiders
spinning their webs around in Hagrid's hut, but there could be, and if
JKR wanted to give us a hint about possible spiders lurking in there,
I suppose, in
Ron's words, a giant spider's 'horrible hairy body' is bigger than the
average anvil. 

So, err, don't laugh please, but Snape being a spider Animagus is part
of this idea I had. 

So Snape doesn't know the exact words of the entire prophecy, but now
he knows Harry is "The One". What does this change? Is Snape suddenly
converted to goodness? No, he's just as bad as before, only now he
realizes there's finally a chance of someone defeating Voldemort. And
he decides to change sides.

Well, this theory requires a Snape that is not a loyal Death Eater,
obviously, but someone who joined Voldemort's ranks for reasons other
than fanaticism, such as Bella. And even if this Snape, since changing
sides, did Dumbledore's bidding and even might have AK'ed him on his
orders, he's not doing it out of any hidden goodness.
He'd simply be eliminating a master that he feels is, as Bart put it,
a major menace. 

I don't really like this theory (mine, not Bart's), it's just
something I thought
could work, because of the spider theme. Personally, I believe in Good
Guy Snape as I find it more fitting to Harry's and Snape's development
so far.

lucianam, following the spiders