Snape and the "Chosen One" Was: Nice vs. Good - Compassion

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 153252

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at ...> wrote:
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> 
> My initial instinct is to believe that Snape inherently distrusts 
> Harry's status as the "Chosen One," and doesn't really believe Harry 
> is as important as everyone says he is.
> 
> Snape has, of course, every reason to believe Harry *is* important, 
> but I don't think he does, because of the reasons *why* Harry is 
> important.
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>

And once again, we are back to a terminally stupid Snapey-poo.  
Actually, we are more back to a terminally incompetent Dumbledore, who 
seems to hold personal privacy above the imperative to protect 
children from being abused.  

Yet the question of what Snapey-poo knows and when he knows it IS an 
interesting one.  What does Snape know?  Not the full prophecy, we are 
told, but what else has he been told?  Just how deep does Dumbledore's 
incompetence run?

One thing that comes to mind is the conversation overheard by Hagrid.  
What is it that Snapey-poo wants out of?  Killing Dumbledore?  That 
would be, IMO, cheesy and bad writing beyond belief.  Watching over 
Harry?  Now that would be very interesting.  It bespeaks that not all 
is well in happy Hogwarts land and EpitomeofGoodness!Dumbledore is not 
quite the reprehensible idiot he comes over as.  Or maybe, he is even 
a bigger idiot than he seems, if Snape did in fact betray him.


Lupinlore, who really does hope Dumbledore isn't quite the total 
incompetent he seems -- if only in the area of assembling a world-
class lemon sherbert-wrapper collection.