The UV

[eggplant107]

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puduhepa98 at ... wrote:

> It was not stupid to take the UV, if he
> had a strong enough reason  to do so.
> The information about Draco's task was
> potentially vital, worth risking his 
> life to discover. 

Snape already knew about Draco's task, and if he didn't and he really
was as heroic as you say he was then why did he interrupt the woman
right when she was about to spill the beans? And it wasn't his life he
was risking, it was Dumbledore's. 

> When he agreed to take the vow, he 
> did not think it would encompass more
> than protecting Draco.

In other words you think Snape was a very very stupid man, and in one
stroke Snape becomes about as deep as Doctor Evil was in the Austin
Powers movies. 

> DD had already picked SS as  his most 
> trusted aide long before the UV.  
> Because SS told him about the  UV
> (and because DD did not believe there
> had been any intent to be a  traitor
> or to murder DD IMHO), he had no reason
> to change his opinion of  SS. 

NO REASON?! Intent doesn't enter into it, Dumbledore had found a man
who now had no choice but to become a traitor to the cause and to try
to murder the leader of the good guys, and Dumbledore still trusts
this fantastic idiot? Dumbledore would have to be even dumber than
Snape, and that's saying something! Put yourself in JKR's shoes and
try to write a book based on that foundation that readers won't howl
at with unintended laughter. Try to write a good book with such
moronic characters. Go ahead, try, I dare you. 

Eggplant