DDM!Snape & the UV

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 149797

Eggplant:
> Snape had a decision to make, he could fight the Death Eaters and
> possibly kill them OR he could murder Dumbledore. Snape, the man
> you ask us to admire decided the moral thing to do is murder
> Dumbledore. I don't think so.

Jen: I always think the same thing when I read this argument: 
Dumbledore didn't ask Harry to go fetch a Shoot-Em-Up hero to the 
tower like Sirius or James, someone who would rather die fighting 
than betray his friends. Nope, Dumbledore asked Harry to bring back 
the so far morally ambiguous anti-hero, Snape. 

I don't really think Dumbledore intended Harry & Snape to make it 
back to the tower before he either saved Draco and himself or 
allowed himself to be killed by the enemy. But if by some chance 
they arrived, Dumbledore wasn't requesting Snape so he could 
administer an antidote with glowering Death Eaters taking a smoke 
break until he finished. He wanted Snape because of who he *is*.

Jen R., not expecting Eggplant to buy that because that would be the 
end of Dirty Harry and SuperVillain!Snape who have a certain appeal 
<beg>.