But DID James listen? (was LID!Snape rides again )

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 150200

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
<snip>
> Speculation here: If he wasn't sent out on missions to torture 
Muggles
> and the like, instead being entrusted with special projects like
> making potions to immunize the Dark Lord against the ravages of 
time
> and other mortal ills, it may have been some time before he became
> disillusioned. Only when he realized that the Dark Lord meant to
> murder an infant who posed a dim future threat would his loyalty 
have
>   begun to waver (helped, perhaps, by the murder before Severus's 
eyes
> of Regulus Black). We have no evidence that he committed murder
> himself before he killed DD, only the assumption that as a DE he 
must
> have done so, contradicted IMO by the evidence of specialization 
among
> the DEs. Karkaroff would have mentioned it had Snape done so. He 
was
> desperate to free himself at his fellow DEs' expense.
> 
<snip>

If Snape was the Dark side's potion expert that may not have been a 
good thing for him
especially if Snape was testing and/or designing 
anti-aging potions. Quite simply Snape's methods seem to involve 
some trial and error (the frequent rewrites in the HBP potion book) 
and if one is trying to design something to stop human aging the 
best way to test the trail versions would be on other humans. We 
know that Fred and George experienced unpleasant side-effects when 
experimenting on themselves...Snape could avoid that by testing 
things on muggles and enemies of the Dark side. 

Quick_Silver