DDM!Snape & the UV

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149862

Eggplant:
> As Dumbledore demonstrated in the big shoot out at the ministry at the
> end of book 5, an extraordinarily powerful wizard can fight many
> average Death Eaters at the same time and win rather easily, and
> Dumbledore didn't have the element of surprise as Snape had.

Pippin:
Dumbledore overcame his enemies without killing them. The more
powerful we make Snape, the less justification he has for killing in
battle. Would Dumbledore want Snape to tear his soul four
times in order to keep his cover intact? Would he think the wizarding
world would profit if it gained freedom from Voldemort and lost its 
soul? 

See, I'm willing to believe that Snape could be an evil person, but
to say superwizard!ESE/OFH Snape must be evil defies logic. 

He has the  mad wizard skills to overcome four DE's but couldn't 
possibly fake an Avada Kedavra. 

He must divine instantly that Dumbledore wants him
to defy everything the Order stands for and kill four relatively
defenseless people, but he  couldn't possibly know that Dumbledore 
wants him to get the DE's out of the school and protect his cover 
at all costs. 

He must be able to  act well enough to feign remorse for sixteen
years, but not well enough to fool Harry Potter for ten seconds. 

Not only that,  even if Dumbledore did want Snape to kill all four
DE's to keep his cover intact, it wouldn't work. In the WW, dead
men *do* tell tales. Unless you're completely sure that the individual
in question won't want to come back as a ghost, killing someone to 
silence them would be self-defeating.


Pippin