Thoughts Regarding Snape

[vmonte]

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Julie wrote: 
Dumbledore also is secure in the knowledge that Draco and Harry will 
be safe, as well as the rest of the students at Hogwarts, as he 
knows DDM!Snape will see to it that the Death Eaters are removed 
post-haste.

...I don't think we know enough about the inner workings of Snape's 
mind to know if he has delusions of grandeur (he is correct about 
his prodigious talents at Potions and DADA--no false modesty there, 
but no delusions either). We also don't know if he has killed 
several people since he was a DE, since we only see the one instance 
(Dumbledore) and even that instance has some reasonable room for 
doubt. 

vmonte responds:
Why would Dumbledore go through the trouble of having himself be 
dramatically murdered (to keep Draco safe) only to then have Snape 
take Draco back with him to Voldemort? I'm not sure Draco is going 
to be safe with Voldy, especially since he failed in his task.

>From what we have seen of Death Eater action in the books I think I 
can safely assume that part the modus operandi of a DE includes 
murdering or at least torturing people. 

Julie wrote:
His other "persona" was something he adopted as a teenager, not 
something we have any evidence he considers relevant as an adult 
(other than to let Harry know the spells in the Potions book were 
his).

vmonte responds:
I think I remember Snape bragging to Harry that he was the Half-
Blood Prince in book 6. 

According to what we do know about Snape he told Dumbledore about 
the prophecy once he realized that the prophecy was going to target 
Harry's family. But doesn't that also imply that if it turned out to 
be some other shmucks family that he would have been okay with it?