Predictions for the End (what I think, hope and know)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 167234

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quick_silver71" 
<quick_silver71 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
> <horridporrid03@> wrote:
> >
> > Betsy Hp:
> > When DH finally comes out, this is the post that will either give 
> me 
> > reason to gloat or force me to eat some crow.  A breakdown of 
what 
> > I'm sure will happen, what I think will happen, and what I hope 
> will 
> > happen. 
> <snip>
> 
> Quick_Silver:
> Things that I'm fairly confident about:
> 
> --Snape is DDM. 

<snip>
 
> Things that I'd love to see (but probably won't happen):
> --Snape isn't simply DDM he's....Marauder!Snape (loyal to the cause 
> but independent and with his own code). 
 
zgirnius:
I wonder that this is in the list of things that probably won't 
happen. It seems to me that this is something extremely likely to be 
left to the readers' interpretation, since the books are narrated in 
the limited third person. We don't know why Snape does things, in 
other words, and will not know for sure even if he tells us in gory 
detail on page.

Like you, I believe Snape is DDM!. And I think we already have 
excellent reasons for believing him to be 'independent and with his 
own code'. At the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, for example, he was 
clearly acting on his own initiative and based on his own ideas. 
Dumbledore was not there telling him what to do or pulling his 
strings, and would, in my opinion, have preferred the matter to have 
been handled somewhat differently. It seems highly unlikely to me 
that DH would overturn this.

> Quick_Silver:
> --Harry realizes that Snape is good (on his own...no help from 
> anyone) quite early in the book and shamelessly uses it to his 
> personal advantage while Snape is totally unaware. 

zgirnius:
Oh, this would be fun! But I agree, fairly unlikely. It seems to me 
that Harry's closing thoughts on Snape in HBP are setting up their 
next meeting as one Harry will experience, at least at first, as a 
confrontation between enemies.