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Pip!Squeak:
> The other point is that he doesn't give Harry just the memory with 
> Snape and Dumbledore discussing 'Harry needs to die by LV's hand'. 
> He gives Harry the whole truth, as Snape knows it. 'This is who I 
> am, this is why I was protecting you, this is why Dumbledore was 
> protecting you. And neither of us were doing it for Harry Potter,
> the person. We were doing it for other reasons.'

SSSusan:
Yes.  Another way of seeing the "Look at me" line from Snape -- 
other than his desire to see Lily's eyes again -- is that he is 
telling Harry, "This is who I am -- LOOK at me."  It's an 
invitation, something many of us never would have believed Snape 
capable of offering.


Pip!Squeak:
> And by giving these memories, he treats Harry as an adult. He 
> doesn't tell Harry what to do; he gives him the truth, effectively 
> tells him he doesn't owe his mentors anything, and then leaves it 
> to Harry to make up his own mind. 
> 
> It's worth noting that the one thing Dumbledore never asked Snape 
> to do was tell to tell Harry the truth.

SSSusan:
And I would mention that, unless a reread of this section shows me 
something I've missed, Snape gave Harry *more* of the truth than DD 
himself ever did.  

DD did *not* share his belief that Harry would need to die -- or at 
least that the soul bit within him would have to, because he didn't 
tell Harry about that soul bit -- which means, imo, that Harry was 
not fully informed about what choice he was facing.  As I've said 
before, to me that means his choice was less of real choice.  SNAPE 
gave him the whole picture, all the information Harry wanted (and 
had asked for in the past) and needed if he were to be able to make 
a fully-informed choice.  

DD told Harry at the end of OotP that he had told him 'everything,' 
but in fact he had not.  And even if he discovered more *after* that 
talk at the end of OotP, he didn't *update* his 'everything' once he 
found out more about those horcruxes, did he?  Snape, otoh, did give 
him everything he knew.

THAT much I give Snape a lot of credit for.

Siriusly Snapey Susan