Part 4 - A Tale of Two Pretties (Was: The Good, the not so good and the downrigh

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 167824

The Downright Ridiculous Snape or The Enigma and the Snake

Goddlefrood:

Firstly, thank you all for the tremendous responses to this 
thread so far. It appears to me to have been a very useful 
exercise to reopen the matter of the duplicitous one from 
different perspectives :)

The final instalment now, having delivered my favoured views of a
possible good Snape and a possible not so good Snape. Here mostly
for your entertainment is the downright ridiculous Snape.

Simply Snape's patronus is Nagini. 

Odd? No more so than his being Fawkes the Phoenix, IMO ;).

There is little support for this and from the matters in GoF, 
particularly relative to the Foe Glass it is almost certainly
incorrect. I give you the tale of two pretties :). It would, 
having said that be an alternative for the two snakes seen when
DD checked his instruments in OotP.

On Snape's boggart I suggest that that may take the form of 
seeing the Potters killed again, not that he saw that the first 
time, but he has their deaths as his one true moment of regret, 
IMO.

Both the suggested patronus form and the suggested boggart form 
are presented to you due to JKR not being able to tell us what 
they are, as in her words: "that would give too much away."

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Just to wrap up the series of originating posts now I'll offer 
a few possible ways in which Severus's story ark may play out in 
DH.

The one that is not hard to fathom is that when we first meet him 
in DH, if we actually do get some of Harry's radar chapters, he
will be with Draco and making plans as to how they can hide from
detection, being as Snape is now the second most wanted wizard in
the ww.

As I have said in other posts on this thread I do believe Severus
will be a help to Harry in his Horcrux quest rather than a 
hindrance. If that is not the case then Harry will have problems 
due to my other opinion of Severus, which is that he is in the 
top three most powerful wizards we have met in the books to date.

Can anyone honestly envisage a scenario where Harry and Snape 
team up early in the book and Harry accepts help from he whom he 
currently considers to be the worst and most repulsive murderer 
in history bar none? I have to say, I really don't think so, but 
then I've been wrong before.

I hope that Snape will turn out to be assisting the "good" 
because he has had a rough life from what we have been shown. 
I hope that Snape will turn out to be "good" as Harry will have 
severe problems if he is truly with LV. Perhaps Aberforth will 
transpire to be an extraordinarily powerful ally for Harry, but 
even then Snape and LV on the same side would be a formidable 
opposition, not to mention Bellatrix and the often underestimated 
Peter.

The only other small points that I want to say to wrap this up, 
barring responses ;) are:

(i)When Hagrid says "No one ever lived after Lord Voldemort
decided to kill them", it is my prediction that Snape will be 
one possible exception to this.

(ii) The smoky white matter that took the shape of a phoenix at
Dumbledore's funeral I predict will be DD's last message to Snape,
whom DD did trust, whether misguidedly or otherwise :)

Over to others

Goddlefrood, who commends Nikalmati for pointing out once again
that the Spanish Inquisition was an ongoing situation. That no
one ever expected such a thing is by the by :)