DDM!Snape & the UV

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149792

> "Tonks" <tonks_op@> wrote:
> 
> > It makes sense if DD told Snape to
> > do whatever it took to maintain his cover.

Eggplant: 
> 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. 

Pippin:
Well, that brings us right back to Oscarwinner!Snape, doesn't it?
It *is*  hard to get away from him, since he's canon. Where would he
be if he didn't know how to act? 

But there's another flaw in this little plan...

Does it strike you that the crew on the tower are such devoted
Voldemort loyalists that they would die rather than surrender?
Well, Fenrir probably is. But Alecto and Amycus don't strike me
as the type. They'd drop their wands and plead for mercy.
 
Then what? Memory charms can be broken. And killing a DE
who's given himself up is murder, and Dumbledore would
surely rather die than murder anyone, even a slimeball
DE.  That's just who he is. 

Eggplant:
> 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. 

Pippin:
Um, how do we know that Dumbledore is a better warrior than
Snape? Narcissa thought  Snape could kill Dumbledore, not
a sick wandless Dumbledore but the Dumbledore whom not
even the Dark Lord himself could conquer.

Harry needs a cover story, because if Voldemort guesses that
Harry is hunting horcruxes, he can easily give up his plan
of seven only, hidden in significant objects, and come up
with something sensible. Hunting Snape will do, especially
since Harry has about as much chance of killing Snape as
Draco had of killing Dumbledore. 

So why not let Harry in on the plan? 

Harry, unlike Snape, has not had much experience with
feigning hatred. He's never been as good at lying as he
thinks he is.  Dumbledore  would hardly  trust the life 
of his mightiest warrior to Harry's feeble powers of 
dissimulation.

Pippin