The UV

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 155968

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
<SNIP>
> 
> Have you ever read a spy novel where the loyal spy tells the 
President
> of the United stated that he's going to assassinate him, and the
> President said it's a brilliant idea and still trusts him 100%, and
> then the spy actually does it and kills the President? I haven't.
> 
> And if Snape and Dumbledore behaved in the way you suggest then 
they
> are not deeply conflicted, they are deeply brain damaged. 
> 
> Eggplant
>

I agree that the whole "Dumbledore had this planned with Snape" 
angle would be unbelievable, contrived, and bad writing to the point 
of inducing projectile vomiting.  I also agree that it would make DD 
and Snape out to be morons of a particularly contemptible stripe, 
since they leave Harry to clean up the results of their ridiculous 
plot.

There are other possibilities with regard to the UV, however.  We do 
not know how much Snape actually understood about Draco's mission 
before he took the UV.  We also are not at all sure that he was 
completely honest with DD about all the "clauses" involved in his 
vow.

For instance, did Snape realize that Dumbledore, and not Harry, was 
the target of Draco's mission?  Did he know that said mission 
involved murder?  If Snape had been completely honest with DD about 
the vow, why did Dumbledore tell him to "start searching with your 
own house," after the necklace episode -- both of them would have 
known exactly where to search.  Did DD realize the full import of 
the UV at any point before Snape appeared on the tower?  Was there a 
last minute communication between Snape and DD -- which I think 
would be cheesy, contrived, and unbelievable, and still leave them 
both being morons -- but not quite so contemptible of a moron in 
DD's case.


Lupinlore