LID!Snape rides again and again

[Olivier Fouquet]

No: HPFGUIDX 149741

 > Neri:
 > You are forgetting again the UV. The question isn't really why Snape
 > killed Dumbledore on the tower. As you say, he had to do that to stay
 > alive. So the real question here is what possessed him in Spinner's
 > End to take the third part of the UV. Admittedly either DDM, ESE, OFH
 > or LID don't explain it. However, DDM still has a much harder time
 > with it, because a Snape who is loyal to Dumbledore and takes a  
Vow to
 > kill him is, er... shall we say mysterious?

Olivier
Hum, I believe Snape did not know what he was swearing to do. We have  
no evidence from Spinner's End that he did and we have evidence that  
he tried to obtain informations from Draco, which suggests that he  
didn't know exactly what was going on around Christmas. He probably  
knew in March though, since he has this little disagreement with  
Dumbledore. Can DDM explain Snape vowing to do some unspecified  
mission for Voldemort? Well yes. DDM! advocates will readily tell you  
that Snape fully intended to die for the cause so he had no problem  
taking the vow. You have to admit that it gave him a pretty credible  
cover. Besides, if he can be sure that Draco is making progress while  
not endangering Dumbledore too much, it's perfectly okay. That said,  
if Snape is DDM and if he didn't know what was Draco's mission, he  
made a very foolish decision to lie to Bellatrix and Narcissa. That  
set in motion dire events. Not the first time that DDM!Snape was not  
too effective by the way, the way he handled Occlumency was  
incredible. He knew perfectly well that Dumbledore's "shrewd  
idea" (which turned out to be very effective) could work only if  
Harry learnt Occlumency and yet he allowed that to stop!

Anyway, I, for one, never believed in AllGoodDDM!Snape. Snape is not  
a nice guy. That is canon, not theory. In JKR's opinion, he is "in  
some ways more culpable even than Voldemort".

By the way, I would like to point that when Dumbledore is dying on  
the top of the tower, he instructs Harry to "go and wake Severus" and  
to "tell him what has happened". This is quite remarkable because it  
suggests that Snape knows about the Horcruxes seek and destroy mission.

Having reread a bit of JKR's interview, I must say I feel vindicated  
in my non-theorizing approach. Gee, Grindelwald, the gleam,  
Dumbledore's family, the Founders, who loved Snape… All that is  
enormously important. No chance we can guess something even remotely  
close to the truth in my humble opinion.

Best regards,
Olivier