Snape again

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 148898

Gerry:
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> 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.
> 

Alla:

As I said many times in the past - WEAK!Snape (other names are also 
valid)is the only variation of the "sort of" DD!M Snape which I 
like. As always credit goes to amazing Severely Siguine who 
introduced in her "Snape the riddle" essay ( it is in the 
recommended posts and if somebody did not read it yet, absolutely 
recommended :-)) Snape who did not tell DD about third provision of 
the UV, and Snape who killed DD because he truly felt that he had no 
other choice. Now, I have not reread Siguine essay for quite some 
time, so I don't remember if in her version DD IS dying from the 
poison on the Tower or not, but to me it really does not matter in 
such scenario. Snape may have truly felt that for the greater good 
he has no other choice but to kill DD, otherwise he won't be able to 
save Draco and /or Harry and indeed to force DE out of school, blah, 
blah, blah.

Snape may have had all the best intentions in the world (Okay, I 
really don't think that he did but for this scenario, I am ready to 
buy it), when he thought that he IS indeed more valuable for the 
light than DD is.

The thing is I truly believe that if this is the case, JKR intends 
to prove him wrong. Namely put him through hell for committing the 
murder, even if for the "greater good".

It also plays into my conviction that if Snape IS to be redeemed , 
he needs to have something to be redeemed from within the course of 
the story and while I sure think that his mistreatment of Harry 
qualifies, his murder of DD (of course I call it murder - opinions 
vary on that) qualifies even more.

And when JKR was talking about "redemptive pattern" in Snape, 
probably, hopefully she was talking about pattern, which will show 
up in book 7.

Alla, who wants Snape to be evil, but who also likes Weak and 
Arrogant Snape.