Petunia's Eyes/Snape, Snape, Snape

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 169930

> Alla:
> 
> Um, you forget that OFH or LID or Grey Snape exist as theories?
> Okay, I hope I refreshed your recollection then <g>
> 
> Magpie:
> Honestly? I kinda do when I'm looking at canon. *ducks and hides*
> At least for LiD and OFH Snape. (Speaking of shockingly indiscreet,
> I think both of those are just filed in my head under "Plot Device!
> Snape" if these are the theories as I understand them--I think that 
> for intance, Snape's feeling in Debt to the Potters is an important 
> part of his character in canon.) Snape's already Grey in canon 
> whichever way he goes. 

Jen:  Wait a sec, DDM Snape gets to be grey, too??  You mean in the 
sense of before and after Snape, that he's Grey because he was a DE 
and now he's returned to Dumbledore?

Because I don't see how a DDM!Snape can be Grey.  His redemption is 
supposed to be a *complete* reversal when all was said and done.  All 
his actions will make sense for a fully redeemed Snape when his 
loyalty and motives are revealed, even the tower where he is supposed 
to be acting on DD's orders to kill him (or there was no AK is the 
second option, I suppose).  And Dumbledore's man *through and 
through* as I understand the concept, at least how I interpret the 
canon version of that statement, would be a Snape who has renounced 
the following if he subscribed to them during the time he was 
Voldemort's man:  the dark arts, pureblood superiority, and *real* 
ties (not the double-agent pretend ties) and loyalty to Voldemort or 
his followers which would in any way supersede his loyalty to 
Dumbledore.  Otherwise I don't see how he's DD's man through and 
through if he has other masters (so to speak) that have caused him to 
falter in his loyalty to Dumbledore.

Jen