Harry's arrogance /Evil Snape

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 154407

 

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> > Carol notes:

> > 
> > To  repeat, *if* Snape's choice was between killing Dumbledore and
> >  Harry's almost certain death fighting four DEs (and Draco, if he
> >  joined in), surely the correct choice was to save Harry?
> 
>  
> Alla:
> 
> The problem with this question as I see it is  that this choice would 
> NEVER occur exactly as you describe IMO.
>  
> Even if Snape keeps telling himself ( and I am describing Snape which  
> I am not buying, just for the sake of the argument) that he is 
>  killing DD for the sake of saving Harry only, we KNOW that it is not 
>  true, unless Snape is Saint. IMO of course.
 
Julie:
Why does Snape have to be a saint to save Harry? He's been saving 
Harry since Book 1, even though he hates the little brat (his view). 
He can do it again on the Tower while still hating the brat,  because
it is what *DD* wants, and because it's what will save the WW (and
even because he doesn't want Harry dead even if he hates him).
 
And why exactly could it "NEVER" occur as Carol suggested? I do
think it could, leaving Snape to make a choice, neither of which he
wants to make. He's between a rock and a hard place as the saying
goes, in a no-win scenario. No matter what he does, his action is
going to lead to someone else's death. The choices are 1. Dumbledore,
or 2. Harry and Draco, *and* Dumbledore (who appears too weak to
fight back against the DEs) as well as, yes, himself. (I'm assuming
the UV would start working on Snape as soon as he *didn't* finish 
Draco's task by trying to save DD from the DEs instead, which is
as reasonable an assumption as any about the UV.)
 
Alla:
> Snape's life is ALWAYS in the equasion, because if he does  not kill 
> DD, he is well... dead, no?
 
Julie:
This is true, but we don't really know whether Snape was willing to
die or not. I think he *was* willing to die rather than kill  Dumbledore
but Dumbledore wouldn't allow it, because it would mean Harry's
likely death too. If Snape could have gotten out of the whole thing
with his death being the only one, I think he would have taken that
option in a heartbeat. But that option wasn't there. 

Julie,  who's never seen evidence of Snape clinging to his joyless life 
no matter the cost as Voldemort and Wormtail are wont to  do.






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