Tobias and the Angel (The Good) - Snape Part 2

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 167436


> 
> Betsy Hp:
> I agree with zgirnius's statement here:
> 
> > >> zgirnius:
> > The question arises, what was he doing listening outside that
> > door?
> > <snip>
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> If Snape reported the prophecy to Voldemort on Dumbledore's orders 
it 
> would mean that (a) Snape would have no reason to feel any 
remorse, 
> and (b) Harry will end the series hating Albus Dumbledore.  (It 
would 
> mean a bit more than just that actually, but I think those two are 
> enough to be going on with. <g>) 
> 
> It would completely destroy any aspect of redemption within 
Snape's 
> story.  Snape would not need to be redemed because he did nothing 
> wrong to begin with.  Dumbledore would bear that particular 
burden, 
> but he'd also die without redemption, forever passing the buck to 
> poor Snape.
> 
> I much prefer the idea of "disaffected youth"!Snape (aka punkrock!
> Snape <bg>) with a simmering resentment of "Perfect Potter" and 
his 
> goldenboy gang with their money and their blood and their poncy 
> accents, becoming easy pickings for Voldemort and his Death 
Eaters.  
> (Do I love the idea of "Northern mill-town"!Snape? Hell yeah.) An 
> emotional boy who wore his heart on his sleeve, and who therefore 
> made a horrible mistake.  A mistake he's spending the rest of his 
> life trying to amend.  *That's* a character and a story-line I can 
> get behind. <g>
> 

wynnleaf
I totally agree, Betsy!  

However, there is the question of why Snape went for many years 
without revealing Lupin's secret.  When Snape was a loyal Death 
Eater, and Voldemort was recruiting werewolves even then, as well as 
supposedly dealing with people "defying" him like Order members, why 
wouldn't Snape have taken some opportunity to spread the news that 
Lupin was a werewolf?  I realize that Dumbledore somehow got Snape 
to not reveal the secret while in school, and after Snape started 
working as Dumbledore's spy, he'd need to watch out about keeping 
Dumbledore's trust.  But what about in between?  Why not reveal 
Lupin's secret?

Of course, it could be a plot hole.  But are there any other reasons?

wynnleaf