My Take on the Whole Snape/Draco/Dumbledore/Secret Keeper Thing

Mon Nov 6 18:57:02 UTC 2006

No: HPFGUIDX 161082

Okay, here's my take on the whole Snape thing.

1) I don't think he hates muggleborns as much as he
appears to.  I think when he was young he was more
trying to fit in with both the purebloods/Slytherins
he was with.  Maybe he was even TRYING to hate them
with an outward appearance of it but not deep inside. 
I feel he had a respect for Lily even though he called
her names in public.  Remember that the one "memory"
we saw of James and the others taunting him, even Lily
hated James then and wouldn't have anything to do with
him.  As of yet we don't know what changed her mind,
of course, but something must have. ;-)

Just because Snape has a similar parental situation as
Tom Riddle doesn't mean he hated his Muggle Mother (of
course, I could have forgotten that part in the book)
like Tom hated his Father.  Tom hated his Father
because of the way he treated he and his Mother,
despite the fact that the whole thing was brought on
because of his Mother's desire and a spell and his
Father was actually a victim.

Now, he could DEFINITELY hate Harry because of him
being a living reminder of what James could have and
he could not because of how he was trying to gain the
respect of his peers.

I'm also positive his treatment of Hermione (at least
in public) is an act.  I have a deep feeling that they
are somehow working in private as well (if only having
just to do with school work and not Order work).  Any
of his comments don't seem to phase her at all anymore
and I think that's because she realizes he HAS to act
like that in public.  You never see any instances of
them being in private and him acting like that.  One
reason I think they may do things privately together
is in OotP when Harry's hand is hurting because of the
spelled punishment quill.  Now, Hermione suddenly
comes up with this great potion for him to soak his
hand in.  Even if she came up with the potion from a
book, she HAD to have gotten the ingredients from
Snape's cupboard.  I don't feel she would have stolen
them because it wasn't really life or death like the
other couple of times.  He had to have at the least
allowed her to take them, if not coming up with the
potion in the first place.  There have been quite a
few things like this that have happened through the
last few books that have made me wonder about this,
but that's the only one I remember off the stop of my
head.

Now, for Draco ... I also haven't believed Draco was
all bad ever since the end of CoS.  I'd have to read
the entire book again to see if this is in the book
and not just in the movie, but do you remember in the
movie where they were at the bookstore and Draco comes
down the stairs to taunt Harry before his Father puts
the book in Ginny's cauldron?  Well, Draco pulled a
piece of paper out of a book, folded it and put it in
his pocket.  Later in the book, Hermione is found with
a folded page of a book in her hand (and written on). 
Now, I dont' believe for one second that Hermione
would deface a book like that.  She would have
transcribed the info on a separate piece of paper for
herself.  I think that Draco knew what his Father was
up to and was trying to help without anyone knowing. 
When time was going by and Hermione wasn't coming up
with an answer on her own, he snuck the paper to her
somehow.  I think Draco has been struggling with his
feelings just as much as Snape had when he was young. 
Unfortunately, Draco has two parents that beat the
subject of hating muggleborns into his head and he has
that to contend with as well.  Now don't get me wrong;
I don't think he's all peaches and cream inside, but I
don't think he's all bad and is trying to find his
true self.

As for Dumbledore, I too held onto the hope that he
wasn't really dead and it was maybe a boggart or
something that Hagrid carried in the funeral. 
Unfortunately, when the painting appeared in the
headmaster's office, those hopes were shattered.

I do, however, think that he is still around
protecting Hogwarts, much like the man who gave his
life during the World Quidditch Cup to help those in
the stadium.

I also think he and Dumbledore had an understanding
and he HAD to kill him in order to save both his own
life because of his Wizard's Oath to Narcissa and to
save Draco's life because he didn't do it.  Remember
that all Albus said to him was "Please, Severus" (or
something to that effect).  He never said "Don't",
almost like he was trying to give Snape the strength
that it had to be done and he knew it was time.

About a Secret Keeper, I would think the spell would
have been broken the second James and Lily were dead. 
Although it is a good observation that if Harry was
included in the original spell, he didn't actually die
so should still have been invisible to all who weren't
told the Secret.  Maybe they forgot to actually
include him and he just wound up invisible because he
was with his parents?  I wonder if that will be one of
those little "oops!" that gets missed when writing?

Okay, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! <lol>

Sandra

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