[HPforGrownups] Re: DDM!Snape & the UV

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 149803

Alla:>
> What I am trying to say is that Dumbledore has no other capable and
> powerful adults at this point to summon to his help( I mean, of
> course he has the Order, but Snape seems to be the most pwoerful
> magic strength wise IMO) ,

Magpie:

LOL--So Dumbledore has no other capable and powerful adults...except for 
that small army of capable and powerful adults waiting at the ready that 
you're going to arbitrarily dismiss so that he has to call Snape?  No, even 
if Snape is a god amongst mortal wizards, which I don't think he is, there's 
no reason Dumbledore needs him alone to fight off Death Eaters.  Even if he 
thought this was important enough to blow the cover of the Double Agent he's 
nurtured for years, he could call him as part of the team.


Alla:
so maybe just maybe he was hoping that
> Snape would behave not quite as who he is?
> And maybe just maybe Dumbledore, who of course not afraid of death,
> but who IMO was not very keen on dying yet because Harry needed his
> help so badly, maybe Dumbledore was sorely dissapointed the minute
> Snape showes up on the Tower?

Magpie:
Why and when is he disappointed?  Because he was hoping Snape would not be 
who he is?  Dumbledore starts pleading the minute Snape shows up.  There is 
no change in Dumbledore from hope to disappointment and no catalyst for this 
change to occur. So you seem to be suggesting that Dumbledore not only hoped 
Snape would arrive at the Tower and act like a different person but that 
Dumbledore was hoping he'd literally arrive as a different person--so was 
disappointed when he showed up with a hooked nose, yellow teeth and greasy 
black hair.  Darn, he's still Snape.  I was hoping he'd turn up as Barbara 
Cartland.  Now I'm disappointed!  (Not that I'm showing any sign of it 
whatsoever.)

-m