[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Survey, Snapeity, Dumbledore's sacrifice.

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 149151

Sydney wrote:

> Or, gee, here's a shock-- maybe Dumbledore's not shocked at all. Maybe
> he's pleading for a reason unconnected to shock.  Because, to be
> shocked, you have to surprised, right?  Maybe, as I said in the post
> that just possibly you didn't absorb fully:

> --Sydney, taking the gin out of the freezer


KJ writes:

    I must say that I agree with Sydney's take on the tower scene and 
believe that we have been led to the same conclusion by at least 
portions of the book.  We know that Snape and Dumbledore have had an 
argument over something that Snape is being forced to do. We also know 
that Dumbledore has told Harry that he knows more of what is going on 
with Snape's UV than Harry. We know that DD drank something "that would 
not kill him immediately" and we also know that Snape is the only person 
that Dumbledore wanted. It seems clear to me that the pleading was a 
continuation of the argument in the forest, that Snape, who was well 
able to see how events were about to unfold, was forced into the same 
action that DD had been pressuring him to do. The tower scene is not a 
stand alone scene. This scene is what the whole story has been leading 
to since GoF. The ambiguity about Snape is what all reasonable people 
feel about spies. Can you trust him? Dare you trust him? DD did for a 
reason.

KJ