[HPforGrownups] Trusting Snape (was: Is Snape good or evil?)

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 148769



Tammy Rizzo:
>I *DO*, however, believe that DD would to
>ANYTHING *to protect Harry*, even give up his life, at whatever cost to
>Snape or to any other teacher.  Whatever DD knew beforehand, whether he 
>knew
>of the UV at all, or of only part of it, or of the entirety of it, when it
>came down to the actual moment on the Tower, DD showed what he was willing
>to do by using his last moment with a wand to immobilize Harry under the
>Invisibility Cloak, so that Harry couldn't do anything stupid and draw
>attention to himself.  DD put himself in front of Harry, in a sense, by
>ensuring that Harry couldn't reveal himself.

PJ:
Ok,this arguement makes no sense to me.  Surely Dumbledore understood that 
once he was dead the spell on Harry would lift and Harry could then "do 
something stupid", cloak or not? The first of which would be to get into a 
fight with all those death eaters on the tower and the second being to try 
and take out Snape!   We've seen wandless magic done by Quirrel and it was 
quite good!  Why would Dumbledore choose to leave Harry in the presence of a 
child loving werewolf and several other DEs?  That's criminal and not 
Dumbledore's style at all!

And what was Dumbledore going on about hiding Draco and his Mom if he'd 
planned to die there on the tower?  Now Draco is with Snape (who I 
personally don't trust as far as I can throw) and, because there's no cannon 
either way, could hypothetically be on his way to LV at this very minute...  
Ya, I know you don't think so but we won't know for sure till book 7 is out. 
  :-)

Snape is now useless to the order and DDM!Snape or not, he is dead meat.  He 
has the whole WW after him for killing his Headmaster.  Was that what 
Dumbledore had planned for him?  A life of running and hiding and eventual 
death?  Can't be the same Dumbledore I've been reading about.

Seems to me that if Dumbledore planned this he made a real mess of things.  
Harry's determined to kill Snape, we don't know where Draco is for sure AND 
Harry has a small problem with horcruxes which Dumbledore never managed to 
teach him how to find and destroy.

If your theory is correct, I'd have to say Dumbledore blew it bigtime.

PJ