[HPforGrownups] Trusting Snape

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 148933

On 2/28/06, P J <midnightowl6 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Let's say for arguement sake that you're right and Snape is solidly DD's
> man. Well, if after 14+ years of sacrifice and deprivation all Snape
> receives for his loyalty and hard, dangerous work on Dumbledore's behalf is
> to be hunted down like a rabid dog and either thrown in prison or killed by
> an Auror for AK'ing DD - especially if some are right and it was on DD's
> orders?  What a horror!!  That would make DD's "retirement plan" for loyal,
> competent service no better than Voldermort's!  Sorry, I just can't buy
> that!  Dumbledore is so much better than that!

The above is an interesting way of putting it, I think.  If Snape is
trustworthy, what Snape really gets in the end is Voldemort's defeat. 
His being hunted after HBP is then a sacrifice he makes: a great
personal sacrifice, in service of a plan to defeat Voldemort.  From
this point of view, Snape killed Dumbledore because he had no
alternative: all other options put the large scale plan in jeopardy. 
I'm not just talking about his UV with Narcissa, and saving Draco's
life, though those things play into it; but he's up on that tower with
Death Eaters, they are all witnesses, and if it's important for Snape
to appear to be on Voldemort's side in the end (and I believe it is)
in order to carry out the plan to completion, then it is very
important that he not appear to betray Voldemort.  He has his role to
play.  Dumbledore is the author of that plan, and though he may not
have planned to die on this particular night, I think he knew as well
as Snape that there was no alternative.

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Peggy Wilkins
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