High Noon for OFH!Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 149465

> > >>PJ:
> > Snape felt ok taking the vow to protect Draco since he 
would've    
> > tried to do so anyway.  He's been friendly with the Malfoys 
too    
> > long not to.  And he's Draco's head of house which would give 
him 
> > an additional responsibility.  
> > Then we have the added bonus of him thinking that this would go 
a 
> > long way in cementing his position as a loyal DE with 
Bellatrix.  
> > It all works for the OFH!Snape personality.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> It does?  How?  Why would *out for HIMSELF*!Snape care about the 
> Malfoys or his duty as head of house to such an extent he puts his 
> *life* on the line?  Doesn't that directly oppose someone being 
out 
> for *himself* rather than his friends or his duty?  I'm also 
> confused as to how the Vow would prove his loyalty to Voldemort 
more 
> than booting the two women out of his house with a "The Dark Lord 
> has spoken and so it must be."  He took the Vow *in spite* of 
> Voldemort's wishes.  Not in obedience to them.
>

Alla:

I think we run into semantics here again, or maybe into ambiguity of 
the terms. I really don't see how 'Out for Himself" Snape is 
forbidden from wishing to protect Malfoy Jr. To me Out for Himself 
really does not mean that Snape cannot care about anybody else BUT 
himself. To me Out For Himself only means that Snape really does not 
care which SIDE wins in the war, that he would side with whoever 
side wins, whichever side let him have what he wants.

But it surely does not mean that he cannot care for Malfoys, if that 
is included in his goals for some reason which I am not aware of yet.

I can totally see OFH!Snape genuinely wishing to protect Draco, 
while at the same time forfetting the life of the leader of the 
Light in favor of protecting Malfoy Jr. Would I call Snape noble 
here because he genuinely cares for Draco? No, sorry, not if he is 
willing to give Dumbledore's life to Voldemort on the silver platter 
while protecting Draco.

(Yes, I know that you have not said anything of the sorts, I am just 
extending my thoughts about OFH!Snape into speculation land, that is 
all).

JMO,

Alla, who loves LID!Snape more and more, but who still thinks that 
he can coexist with OFH!Snape peacefully enough.