DDM!Snape & the UV

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 149790

"Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:

> It makes sense if DD told Snape to
> do whatever it took to maintain his cover.

What it would take to maintain his cover is for Snape to aim his wand
at the Death Eaters rather than Dumbledore and then tell Voldemort
that Dumbledore had killed them.

> DD would give his life and the lives
> of the members of the Order as long
> as it brings an end to LV.

And yet, according to the good Snape theory, this same pragmatic
Dumbledore suddenly turns all warn and fuzzy and risks everything
including victory over Voldemort just to save the life of an evil
little slime ball like Draco. Then Dumbledore turns back into the cold
and calculating mode and orders a good Snape to become a murderer.
Then Dumbledore orders Snape to take acting lessons so when he
murdered him he would have hatred etched into the harsh lines of his
face. I don't think so.

> This is war and the stakes are very high.

And a well known military tactic is to make sure your best warrior is
killed at the very start of the war, and then to make sure your secret
weapon (Harry) is kept in the dark so he is distracted and goes on a
pointless wild goose chase, like finding and killing Snape. I don't
think so. 

Nobody, not ever JKR, could make a good book out of that preposterous
plot. A redeemed Snape would have been difficult but perhaps possible
before book 6, but not now; what Snape did was unforgivable under ANY
circumstances and the "I was only following orders" defense doesn't
cut it with me even if he had such orders. And he didn't. 

Eggplant