[HPforGrownups] What Dumbledore trusts Snape to do? WAS: Re: High Noon for OFH!Snape

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 149597


> Alla:
> 
> No, there is no limitation to the word "completely", but nothing
> stops JKR ( the way I see it) from specifying in book 7 what DD
> trusted Snape to do COMPLETELY.


   KJ writes:

     I think that this is a very good point, actually, and one that has
   crossed my mind more than once. I think that Snape has his own 
reasons
   for staying by Dumbledore all these years and that he has his own need
   to see Voldemorte destroyed. Dumbledore knows what that reason is and
   trusts Snape's desire to see it through at risk to his own life. I
   don't think that it is the result of a vow made to Dumbledore. I am,
   however, wondering if it might be because of a threat to Snape's own
   family. Keep in mind that JKR can not tell us which staff members have
   family because it would give too much away. I don't think any of us
   care who Sprout is married to or Minerva for that matter, so to me, it
   indicates Snape. Family is such an integral part of these books. With
   Draco, we are shown someone who is unable to do what he believes must
   be done to save his family. Perhaps that is the immediate comparison
   with Snape, who obviously is able to do what must be done. I don't
   think that it is the saving of the WW that drives Snape. He would be
   quite capable of disappearing, and fitting quite comfortably into
   Muggle life where he would not be found. I think that something else
   is his driving force. That is what Dumbledore trusts.
   KJ