Snape and Dumbledore on the Tower: A Defense of Snape

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 165371

  I firmly believe that Snape did indeed kill Dumbledore, just
as DD wanted him to to spare Draco the stain of murder and save
Snape's life. Maybe he considers Snape more valuable than himself,
just as he told Harry he was more valuable.

  As for why Snape took the vow in the first place, well he was rather 
backed into the corner wasn't he? I wonder - is it possible he took 
the vow meaning to break it even though it would cost him his life?

  Remember the fragment of conversation overheard by Hagrid:
   
   "Well - I jus' heard Snape sayin' Dumbledore took too much fer 
granted an' maybe he - Snape - didn't wan' to do it anymore."

  Do what? Protect Draco at the cost of Dumbledore? Go on playing this 
deadly double game? Is death beginning to look like a good, like the 
only way out of the nightmare his life's become? (not that it was 
apparently ever that great!)