[HPforGrownups] Re: Why didn't Snape turn Harry in?

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159163

> Alla:
>
> I reread Magpie's post again and still not hundred percent sure
> whether she asked the question allowing for Evil or OFH! Snape or
> only for DD!M Snape. Sorry!

Magpie:
Sorry!  I did mean to allow for ESE!Snape as well, definitely.  I couldn't 
think of a good reason for him to hide the book from DD either, since all 
Snapes' crimes of the past are pretty much known.  I suppose one could say 
Dumbledore told Snape to destroy the book and he didn't, only if that's the 
case Snape's just not nearly so concerned about it as he should be.  He 
shouldn't be leaving it behind in his classroom or letting Harry hide it.

Alla:>
> Because if Snape is not as faithful to Dumbledore, hehe, I see no
> problem with Hermione's answer, but with some clarification.
>
 But let's imagine for a second two possibilities:
>
> one there could be something in the book ( spell or potion) that
> somehow connected with why Dumbledore trusts Snape. What if this
> spell or potion would reveal to Dumbledore that he really should not
> have trusted Snape when he came back, like I don't know - Snape lied
> to him as to what this potion or spell does or something like that?

Magpie:
That's a good possibility--though again, if that's the case why was Snape 
careless enough to leave the book behind in his classroom?  And why let 
Harry get away with hiding it?  Harry might have taken the book to 
Dumbledore at any time.  Obviously once ESE!Snape has "outed" himself on the 
Tower (and killed DD) it wouldn't matter, but there'd be a danger before 
that with the book in Harry's hands.

Alla:
> Second possibility IMO would be something in the book connected to
> the Prank, which Dumbledore may not have known and which would make
> Snape look complicit? I mean, I doubt that, I think *my memory is as
> good as ever* means that Dumbledore knows a lot more than we do
> about that night, on the other hand he really did not know that they
> were animagi, so who knows?

Magpie:
Ooh--that's kind of cool.  Though wouldn't he want the book out of Harry's 
hands if that was the case?

That's sort of the conundrum with the whole thing.  Snape's got to both care 
about something enough to not turn Harry in to Dumbledore, but casual enough 
that he left the book unguarded and didn't do much to get it back when he 
realized Harry had it.

> Jen:
> <SNIP>
>> Another thought--the book may never be retrieved. That room
>> was...well, it was sort of a graveyard. Maybe the Half-Blood
> Prince
>> died that night. If it was a symbolic moment, then either Snape's
>> secret alter-ego died, the part of him which later blossomed into
> a
>> DE, or else whatever good was left in him.
>
>
> Alla:
>
> Oh, my God, LOVE it, Jen.

Magpie:
Me too!  Awesome!

-m