DD trust in Snape again. WAS: Evil Hermione

[Peggy Richter]

No: HPFGUIDX 154863

AD:(snip) Snape's got a job--probably a much better one than he 
could get anywhere else, given his history--and Dumbledore's 
continuing  protection, right up until Dumbledore decides he was 
wrong about Snape, after all.  Snape needs to preserve that 
relationship for as long as he can.  
> 
> Pippin:> Wait a minute. Only DDM!Snape needs Dumbledore's 
continuing protection. All varieties of Snape have been cleared of 
charges by the tribunal. Snape needs protecting only if he expects
Voldemort to return and only if he intends to oppose him. There  are 
plenty of people with DE history and lovely ministry jobs.  Snape 
doesn't need Dumbledore's patronage for that.

PAR:  ESE!Snape who believes LV will be back had better stay where 
he was told to stay until he can determine just how dangerous LV 
will be when LV returns.  Snape is likely to have that information 
from DD that this is the case very early on  Even Hagrid doesn't 
think LV is done for as he says this to Harry when he first talks 
about LV.  And just becaue he was "cleared" doesn't mean Snape is 
going to get a ministry job. Lucius, despite his money and 
influence, certainly doesn't seem to hold any position other than a 
Hogwarts governer (and that might be hereditary). Sure, he could get 
a job like "killer of dangerous animals" -- I can just see Snape 
giving up Hogwarts for the job of being in a cubicle (like Arthur 
is) making potions on demand for every trivial thing.  There's no 
evidence that a ministry job is "lovely" or any improvement over the 
one he HAS at Hogwarts, where he merely needs to keep on DD's good 
side and otherwise can teach as he pleases and do whatever potions 
he wants outside of class.   This would apply to ESE and OFH 
varieties of Snape quite well.  

As for Snape giving the countercurse for the broom jinx -- there's a 
number of reasons he might do so.  He may still be waiting to see 
what Harry is made of (Tom Riddle, after all, was quite good at 
pretending to be one thing when he was another and Snape may not be 
sure Harry isn't the same).  He may be truly trying to rid himself 
of the life-dept (although IMO even if Harry had fallen, it's not 
likely the fall would have killed Harry).  He may want to simply 
foil Quirrell (who needs someone like QUIRRELL being the new leader 
of the DEs?) -- just as Snape explained in HBP.  He might be DDM 
recognizing LV in Quirrell (although then one does wonder why Snape 
didn't slip Quirrell a sleeping potion or something so as to 
minimize the danger and allow Snape and DD to try to help Quirrell 
rather than the ineffective and roundabout method of the mirror). He 
might just be an advocate for "THE RULES" and object to interference 
in a game.  Snape needn't be DDM to do what he did. It's not 
possible to determine Snape's motives in almost anything he does -- 
if it were, there would be no debates on if Snape is DDM, ESE, OFH 
or someother variety of Snape.
 
As for Snape wanting to kill Harry without being a suspect -- 
throughout the books we have plenty of evidence that Snape is 
into "subtle" -- "bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...." 
(from Snape's speach to the class in Potions in SS/PS). Killing 
Harry or even allowing Harry to be killed where he would be a 
suspect is not an elegance Snape would approve.

Pippin: Anyway, for a common citizen to fail to give aid in
> an emergency is not a crime, AFAIK. 

==yes, it is, at least in some countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law - note where it 
specifically states that there are laws that legally require 
citizens to assist people in distress.  Falling to one's death would 
be "distressing" to say the least.
PAR who wonders why Snape, Draco and other ESE folk get so 
many "passes" while Harry, Ron and Hermione seem to be condemned for 
every error they ever make.