Snape again

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No: HPFGUIDX 148865

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sidd_m2003" <sidd_m2003 at ...> wrote:
>
> OK, OK, you may say "not again" but I had had a really an interesting 
> idea last night. DD knew that DADA department is cursed and no teacher 
> can last for more than one year yet he appoints Snape as new DADA 
> teacher. Which makes me think that DD knew that Snape will not need to 
> teach at Hogwarts after this year. In other words, he knew all about 
> the plan and he had decided that he will need to die in the end. And 
> that famous "please" was a request to kill. If this is true, then 
> Snape is on DD's side. Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Sid
>
A couple of days ago I had another idea. LV is back and especially
after the Umbridge disaster DD really, really needs a competent DADA
teacher. And he has only one: Snape. What if he decided to give Snape
the DADA post, both knowing it was cursed but deciding that then at
least all the students had one year of decent teaching? And then the
curse kicked in with the UV and Snape was now bound to kill him? That
would be a truly horrible way of the curse to work. 

DD had probably figured out by now that the curse settled on the weak
spot of the teacher. For Snape they would have figured it to settle on
his spying, probably thinking he would be outed as a spy for DD
somewhere during the year. Instead it settled on his loyalty: he broke
is oath as a Death Eater and now is in a bind he cannot get out alive.
He has to betray DD or he has to die. Or it settled on his self image:
not being weak. 

To me this means DDMSnape, because otherwise the DADA curse would not
make such a difference. So what if he would not teach at Hogwarts any
more? No big deal for him, if he was truly loyal to LV and only had
the job for spying reasons and later for comfort. But if he was truly
DDM than this is one cursed bind he is in now. 

Did he tell DD? Either he did, or he decided to work for DD as good as
he could during the year as a kind of apology for when he would save
his own skin. Or as a loyal DE it was not DD's business

I think he told DD and they worked out a plan. The reason I think so
is the final exchange between Snape and Harry. The 'don't call me
coward.' The first time Harry called Snape a coward he was fine with
it. It was only when Harry called him a coward in relation to his
killing of DD that he snapped. Why would that be if he was ESE? It was
 not a sporting act, killing a man who was almost dying. But would
that truly matter to a Death Eater who just had succesfully completed
a mission? It would matter, however to DDM!Snape who knows from now on
he will be reviled by everyone he wanted to respect him. 

It would matter to WEAK!Snape who had chosen the easy (well
comparatively) over right and saved his own skin at the cost of the
live of DD. 

Because of how he got the DE's out of Hogwarts and protected Draco,
I'm in favour of DDM. But the other options also make sense to me.

Gerry