Understanding Snape;

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 153635

Ali:

> 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 hav 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.

houyhnhnm:

And so what if he was?  Sure there would be some 
who suspected him, especially those who distrusted 
him already like Moody and Sirius, but what could 
they prove? And what would it matter to DE!Snape if 
some in the Order suspected him of being a traitor, 
if he had managed to see Voldemort victorius and the 
Chosen One dead?  Snape had it in his power to make 
that happen.