Understanding Snape;

[fair wynn]

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>Nikkalmati:
> The reasoning you give about Harry is no doubt pretty much the 
> line of thinking Snape would have followed.  It explains why he
> did alert the Order. However, he could certainly have gotten 
> away with pretending that he didn't understand Harrry's cryptic 
> message and that he never thought Harry could ever get to the 
> MOM.  Who could disprove it?  In any case, Harry would certainly 
> be dead and LV's victory assured if Snape played dumb and kept 
> his mouth shut. BTW didn't DD say to Harry that Snape went into 
> the forest looking for them before he contacted the Order?


This is my point.  Not that it was amazing for Snape to think that 
Harry would go to the MOM, but that it would be easy for Snape to 
not alert the Order and claim he had no idea Harry had gone there, 
or even might go there.

Given that, there was no reason that I can see for Snape to alert 
the Order -- and in particular Dumbledore -- except to thwart the 
plans of Voldemort and to rescue Harry.  Even if he didn't care 
about Harry (I suppose one could argue that), he certainly must 
have intended to thwart Voldemort's plans.

wynnleaf