What might Snape consider cowardice?

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 163654

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
> 
> Alla wrote:
> <SNIP> 
> 
> BUT
> if Snape is ESE, why would he care that Harry calls him a coward, 
> since if he made this decision, he made it conscientously, etc. If 
> he is DD!M, again, why would he care about Harry's name calling, 
> since supposedly they cooked this plan with Dumbledore and Snape 
> should be well prepared himself to hear accusations worse than that?
> I happen to believe that it was somehow connected to Lily, that 
> Snape dearest acted as a real coward to her at one point in his 
> life, and may still regret it.
> 
> I like the speculation that Snape was too cowardly to pursue Lily 
> openly since as half blood, who wanted to be accepted by 
purebloods, 
> he would not dare to show the world his affections for muggleborn 
> witch, but it can be anything.
> 
> Alla, who cries for Dumbledore and Harry every time she rereads the 
> Tower, and who does not spare anything but disgust for Dumbledore's 
> murderer.
>
Brothergib responds:

>From the point of view of DDM Snape.
DD is very, very ill due to the ring curse (enough canon to support 
this IMO.
Snape & DD argue about using DD's inevitable death to help defeat LV. 
DD reminds him of his promise!

On the Tower, DD pleads with Snape to keep his promise, and against 
his better judgement Snape agrees.

Snape's confrontation with Harry. The initial verbal conflict (and 
Harry's first use of 'coward') seems centered on James & the 
Marauders. A topic that frequently causes Snape to be unpleasant, but 
rarely forces him to lose his cool.
When Harry associates cowardice with DD's murder, Snape flips.
So let us consider DDM Snape's mindset at this point. Snape has just 
been forced to murder the one person who he seemed to have any 
respect for. Why did he have to do it? To facilitate a final 
confrontation between LV and Harry Potter - a boy who DD thinks is 
the key to LV's demise, but who, in Snape's eyes can't even manage a 
non-verbal spell and is the son of a hated enemy. And that same boy 
(the very reason he has been forced to murder DD) is now calling him 
a coward.

Yes I think that might force him to get very angry.

Brothergib