High Noon for OFH!Snape

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 149483

"Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:

> The taking of the Vow makes one
> thing very clear-- Snape is willing to die. 

Yes I agree, Snape knows it's very dangerous and soon either he or
Dumbledore will be dead, but if you want to be the number one wizard
in the world you have to be willing to take risks.

> Surely it must be clear that of all our Snapes,
> the most entirely incompatible with the
> Vow is Out-For-Himself! 

Huh? You're saying a pragmatic man would never vow to do something he
had every intention of doing anyway, not even if he had already made
the identical same vow to Voldemort, not even if it gained him 2
allies. Certainly I find the out for himself idea far far more
compatible than a good man vowing to murder another good man and then
actually murdering him as hatred was etched in the harsh lines of his
face; that does not compute. And don't call me Shirley. 

> He had precious little if anything to
> gain and everything to lose from the Vow.  

No, he had something to gain and nothing to lose by taking that vow.

> Taking the Vow doesn't work well with
> ESE!Snape either. 

ESE Snape is not my favorite theory either but it's much better than
DDM Snape because it you look very hard at history you may be able to
find instances of evil men vowing to kill someone and then actually
killing them. Off the top of my head I can't think of a historical
example of a good man murdering another very good man with hatred
etched into the harsh lines of his face. 

> There's plenty of reason to think Voldemort
> would be downright displeased at the Vow. 
> Draco is supposed to die

The number one priority was that Dumbledore die, Voldemort figures
Draco will probably die in the attempt but if he doesn't that's OK as
long as Dumbledore is dead. Voldemort does not hate Draco, or at least
he doesn't hate him more than any other member of the human species.  

> Last man standing:  decent, cunning, miserable,
> instinctively-Dark, trying-to-do-the-right-thing
> yet-screwing-up,not-too-fond-of-being-alive, Snape.
> That's my boy. 

There is one element in your list that is incompatible with the
others, cunning. If Snape is as you describe him then the man is brain
dead dumb.

Eggplant