[HPforGrownups] Snape never turned? WAS: Re: Snape's mom-domestic abuse

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 159969

zgirnius:
I find Dumbledore's statement about Snape to Harry in HBP is difficult to
reconcile with the version of events where Snape became a Death Eater as
Dumbldore's spy. I do not believe Dumbledore lies to Harry, for reasons of
security or anything else, at this point in the series. 
If there is something he feels Harry cannot know, he just doesn't say it
(such as his decision not to more fully explain why he trusts Snape.)



Sherry now:

As I'm sure you know, I am in the Snape is a cold blooded murderer camp.
However, having said that, if indeed Snape turns out to be DDM, it will be
more compelling and believable for me, if he truly was a death eater and
then went to Dumbledore as you described in your post.  A Snape who was
never truly a DE doesn't ring true with me.  It uncomplicates him, in a way
that wouldn't seem true to all the build up.  Not to mention JKR's answer to
a question about there being something redemptive about Snape.  To be
redeemed, one must have done something to cause one to need the redemption
in the first place.

Loved your post, even if I hope that's not the outcome, because I've seen
about all of Snape that I want to see in the books.

Sherry