[HPforGrownups] Re: Trusting Snape

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 149358

Betsy Hp:
>A task Voldemort expected Draco to fail and Snape to finish.  As per
>Snape in the Spinner's End chapter, anyway.  Which is what
>happened.  Draco failed and Snape finished.  What went wrong here?

PJ:
We don't know for an absolute fact that Voldermort expected that, do we?  We 
heard it only from Snape.  While I *do* think he was telling the truth about 
knowing Draco's task, I'm not at all sure that Voldermort specifically asked 
(demanded?) that Snape do the deed if Draco should fail.  Others think he 
was lying about almost everything but I think he may just have stretched the 
truth a speck right there.  <g>

Betsy Hp:
>Hang on, I thought you saw Snape as ESE?  How *do* you explain Snape
>letting Harry go?  He will have to explain this, I think. <snip>  But if 
>you think Snape is ESE, >doesn't that mean hisstatement that Voldemort 
>*wanted* Potter left behind and unhurt was
>a true one?  Isn't that the only way to explain why an ESE!Snape
>*would* fail to kidnap Harry?

PJ:

No, I've always been firmly counted in the OFH!Snape camp but have lately 
been considering the potential worthiness of the LID!Snape theo... umm... 
no.  Scena.....errrr, no.  IDEA!!  <g>

Snape's statement that Harry belonged to the Dark Lord *was* a true one 
(imo) but that didn't mean leave him lying there so that Voldermort has to 
go through all the trouble of catching him again.  I think Voldermort will 
be livid when he finds out Snape had the opportunity to bring Harry to him 
and didn't.

As for why, Snape left Harry there?  To be totally honest, I don't know.  As 
far as I can see OFH!Snape doesn't answer that question.  LID!Snape does, of 
course, but...  Maybe at some point I'll give him and his thought processes 
more time, but as he is my least favorite character, I don't worry about him 
all that much.

Betsy Hp:
>I doubt fetus!Voldemort was up for making potions in GoF, so I'm
>betting that was Peter (he of the multi skills).  And Snape is so
>much more than a potions master.  He's action guy.  He gets things
>done.  Why else is Bellatrix so threatened by him?

PJ:

You think Peter came up with that potion to return Voldy to his body?  He 
didn't seem all that thrilled to give up his hand to me so I really think if 
he'd seen that line in the potions book he'd have looked around for 
something a bit less painful to try first.  Peter's not all that brave.

Bellatrix totally dislikes Snape and appears to think he's a weasel, but 
thinking he's a weasel isn't the same thing as feeling threatened at all.

PJ