Understanding Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 153840

> 
> > Gerry:
> > DDM!Snape does not have a problem at all. Snape waits a certain amount
> > of time, gets worried and alerts the Order. 
> 
> Neri:
> The only problem with this is the sheer irresponsibility and stupidity
> of this non-action. He obviously shouldn't have waited any amount of
> time at all, and certainly not several hours.

Pippin:
As I pointed out, the fact that other members were ordered to keep an
eye on Harry does not mean that Snape was. At least one Order member
was keeping an eye on Draco in HBP. But Harry was  let to know 
more than once that he was not concerned with Draco's activities, and
chided for neglecting his assigned task when he let Draco-watching
interfere with it.   If not for that, we would think it sheer 
irresponsibility and stupidity that Harry neglected to tell 
Dumbledore that Trelawney had been attacked.

 *If*  Snape had been told that he was not to concern himself with Harry's 
activities, it's perfectly reasonable, professional and faithful to 
Dumbledore that he would obey those orders, look after his severely 
injured students (who must have heard the Gryffindors telling each 
other where Umbridge had gone) and notify the Order only when it 
was clear to him that Harry had not come back from the forest within 
a reasonable amount of time.

Pippin