Trusting Snape

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 149080

PJ <midnightowl6 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> What *might* have happened? Here it is...
>
> If Snape were truly DDM! then he'd have taken Flitwick and a few
> Aurors/DA up to the tower (since he could get through the barrier)
> and finally come out in the open as DDM!Snape before he died.  The
> vow would've allowed him to get that far since he was also on his
> way to rescue Draco as well as to see if he'd done the deed.
[snip]
> Dumbledore may have died anyway, but Snape didn't have to kill him.

Peggy wrote:
You are saying DDM!Snape didn't have to kill (or rather, wouldn't have
killed) Dumbledore.  The inevitable result of this is that DDM!Snape
would have died because of his vow.  Aren't you making the assumption
that Harry can defeat Voldemort without Snape, then, because Snape is
at this point dead?

I fall in the DDM!Snape camp, and there is only one reason that I do:
because I believe that Snape is part of Dumbledore's plan to defeat
Voldemort, and that Snape must be there to help Harry in the end, in
Voldemort's presence.  Dumbledore can't do that because he is
Voldemort's enemy.  Snape can do it because he is accepted by
Voldemort as being on Voldemort's side.  This makes Snape's presence
in Voldemort's camp both strategic, and required.  This is why
Dumbledore would be expendable, and why Snape is not (at this point,
yet) expendable.

Surely there's some reason that Snape has been written to appear so
ambiguous, and I think this makes for a very good reason.

--
Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com