Understanding Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 153717

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Neri" <nkafkafi at ...> wrote:


> Neri:
> "Must" seems to be too strong a word here, but it certainly appears
> so. I quite agree that the ESE!Snape theory has a problem explaining
> his actions that night, as much problem as the DDM!Snape theory has in
> explaining these same actions, in fact. Which strongly suggests to me
> that he's neither.
> 
> Neri
>
DDM!Snape does not have a problem at all. Snape waits a certain amount
of time, gets worried and alerts the Order. Searching the forest is of
course not a viable option because a truly extensive search of the
forest will take days. Anything coul have happened to Harry in the
forest. He could have been taken by centaurs, eaten by spiders, and a
lot more. Snape as a teacher and long time resident of Hogwarts almost
certainly knows a lot more of the dangers of the forest than the
children. They went in with a teacher, there is a reasanble amount of
time in which he can expect them back. Yet they did not come. 

Gerry