[HPforGrownups] RE: Understanding Snape;

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

No: HPFGUIDX 153632

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?

wynnleaf:
> 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.

I think we're going in two different circles, and as they say, ne'er
the twain shall meet. :)

My argument, as it were, is that it would not be logical for Snape
[or, for that matter, any of Harry's teachers] to think that Harry
would not have found a way to get to the Dept. of Mysteries.  Think of
it this way [or at least the way I see things]:

If I were Snape and had not alerted the Order about Harry, bringing
about the death of "the Chosen One," the ensuing discussion would have
involved someone asking Snape about the situation.  What is Snape's
defense then?  He didn't think of it?  That no one thought of it
either?  They're flimsy excuses, ones that I think he would be called
upon to explain further.  In my opinion, it is illogical [to Snape and
anyone who has interacted with Harry in the past five years] to think
that Harry Potter wouldn't have found his way to the MoM, and this is
the point upon which my "argument" lies.  Were it someone like
Neville, I would expect that the "I didn't think of it" excuse would
be valid, but Harry, in his years at Hogwarts, has proven himself very
much an "action before logical thought" person, and that is why I
think the "I didn't think he'd find a way" excuse wouldn't work.

~Ali, who hopes she laid out her points better than before