Snape, a Deatheater.

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 163819

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, puduhepa98 at ... wrote:
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> Nikkalmati:
>  
> This is my story and I'm sticking to it.  (For now at least).  I  
don't think 
> it is a comedy, if Snape doesn't know what he has promised with 
the  UV.  It 
> is even more of a tragedy.  When he promises to do the deed if  
Draco cannot, 
> he steps off a cliff with no bottom visible.  I find that  plenty 
distressing 
> for Snape, especially as he didn't see it coming.  Yes,  that is 
exactly what 
> Snape ends up doing - chasing Draco around.  How many  times did he 
request 
> the little snake to come to his office and Draco defied  him?  
Doesn't Snape 
> look pretty ineffective in his interview with Draco  during 
Slughorn's party?  
> There is some real tragic irony here.

Quick_Silver:
That's an interesting way of looking at Snape during HBP because 
lately I've been wondering if the reader isn't supposed to compare 
the efforts of Harry and Snape (in regards to Draco) and, at least in 
my opinion, realize that Harry was really more "on the ball" with 
Draco then Snape was in HBP. So the irony there is that, unlike in 
OotP, its Snape and not Harry who is suffering because of their bad 
relationship (echoes of Sirius's death perhaps?).  

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> Nikkalmati
> It is not in character IMHO for Snape to take foolish risks.  He 
is  putting 
> his life on the line and I think there has to be a corresponding  
payoff.  He 
> doesn't risk himself unnecessarily.  He knows he has a  valuable 
part to play 
> to bring down LV and he is not going to waste  himself.    It is in 
Snape's 
> character to risk himself to find  out vital information about what 
Draco plans 
> to do and to position himself to  stop it.

Quick_Silver:
Here's where I kind of disagree
I think that Snape does sometimes 
take foolish risks. Maybe "foolish risks" is a bad term but sometimes 
I question the man's judgment with the two main examples being the 
Prank and his little monologue in the Shrieking Shack when he 
captures Sirius. I'd also question his methods for dealing with Draco 
(as I mentioned above) which seem to have a limited effect on Draco. 

Quick_Silver (realizing there is an inherent flaw in my argument

Snape may have had great success spying on Draco and hence the 
Dumbledore/Snape knew as much/more then Harry)