Snape Survey, Snapeity, Dumbledore's sacrifice

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 149185

PAR:

> I've been reading the various posts and perhaps someone can explain 
> a bit better for me.  In HBP, we have (American edition, page 583) 
> DD telling HP "Go and Wake Severus" -- this is AFTER they have seen 
> the Dark Mark and after arriving at the tower.  In other words, DD 
> does NOT expect to find SS up and about.  In any scenario of an DE 
> attack on Hogwarts, would DD expect Snape to be present? No. If he 
> fights for the Order, he's outed.  If he fights for the DEs, he 
> could be captured, injured, killed and certainly would look guilty 
> of being a DE.  So DD's expectation would be that if there is 
> trouble with DEs, Snape will "stay in your room".  

houyhnhnm:

I think it is a considerable leap of the imagination from DD's 
telling Harry "Go and wake Severus" to DD's having told Snape to stay 
in his room, one for which I see no canon support whatsoever.

However, as long as we are indulging in pure speculation, it makes me 
think of something I hadn't thought of before, a very small 
refinement on the theory put forth by others--namely, that the 
argument in the forest and DD's pleading on the tower are related, 
and that they both have to do with Snape's continuing to look out for 
Harry.  What if DD's insistance on fetching Snape isn't really for 
the purpose of bringing Snape to Dumbledore at all?  What if it is 
simply a ruse to get Harry to Snape?  As per previous [reluctantly] 
agreed upon plan that, if worse comes to worst, you will protect 
Harry. 

We know that Harry would never put himself under Snape's protection 
willingly; he would run to join his friends fighting the DEs.  So DD 
must use a strategum to get Harry to Snape.

Perhaps DD did tell Snape to stay in his room and wait for Harry, in 
the case of the castle security being breached, but Harry doesn't 
show up, so Snape has no choice but to come out and find him.  This 
is a possible scenario in which DD would expect Snape to be present.