High Noon for OFH!Snape.

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"PJ" midnightowl6 at ...  Wrote:

> the 3rd provision of the vow was
> never on Snape's radar at all! 
> It took him totally by surprise 

But Dumbledore still trusts and respects Snape, why? If Snape told
Dumbledore about the vow, and nothing in it requires he not do so,
then Dumbledore would have no reason to respect Snape's intelligence,
and given that he had vowed become an assassin no reason to trust him.
Face it, JKR is a wonderful writer but even she couldn't make a good
book out of a good Snape. That dog just won't hunt.

> There's no reason to put that "twitch"
> in the scene unless it means something.

I don't think JKR is under any obligation to ever explain that twitch
if she doesn't want to, after all people twitch all the time. However
I think I know why she put that in, she wanted to confuse us. Even I,
a confirmed Snape hater from day 1 couldn't quite believe what I was
seeing the first time I read chapter 2; I knew Snape was a bastard but
I didn't think he was quite that big of a bastard. The twitch
increased my suspicion that there was something more going on than met
the eye, I didn't know what it was but something.

However I was wrong, as it turned Snape was a big enough bastard and
JKR was playing perfectly fairly with me. JKR told me in chapter 2 how
the book would end, and if I didn't believe her that's my fault not hers.

I sure in book 7 we will discover good and noble things Snape has done
in his life, but Snape murdered Dumbledore and nothing, absolutely
positively nothing could ever make me forgive him for that. Well
. Ok,
one thing could, I'd forgive Snape if we discover that Dumbledore is
not really dead. But then I couldn't forgive JKR. 

Eggplant