Understanding Snape

puduhepa98 at aol.com puduhepa98 at aol.com
Sun Jun 11 03:26:25 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 153662

>Ali
<snip>
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.

>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. 
Nikkalmati:
If Snape had walked out of Umbridge's office and gone down to his office  and 
graded papers or had gone to bed, Harry and his friends would have died or  
been captured by DEs and who would have known Harry had tried to alert  him?  
Was Umbridge going to tell anyone (even if she was up to it after her  stay in 
the hospital)?
Were Draco and friends going to tell the Order - hey,  Harry tried to tell 
Snape something, but he ignored it?  I don't think  so.  Snape would have been 
perfectly safe, LV would have the prophecy, and  Harry would no longer be a 
problem for anyone.
Nikkalmati 


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