Justice to Snape WAS: Re: Werewolves? There Wolves!

[toonmili]

No: HPFGUIDX 170579

> Alla:
>
> Um, I think Snape saying *Avada Kedavra* to the person who trusted
> him so much is a rather big point against Dumbledore's trust being
> well placed. IMO of course.


Toonmili: There is strong evidence that the whole thing was planned.
I cannot ignore that.  When it comes to writing it makes no sense to
reveal your big traitor a book early.  That is usually kept until the
last moment possible.   He is still working the Order.   There is no doubt in my mind that DD would take one for team.   And couldn't Snape have just let DD die ealier in the term when he was weak from destroying the Horcrux? Why didn't he do it. The whole point of book six was to kill DD. He had a chance before, they could have saved a lot of time.


> Alla:  As to whether Snape set to destroy the Potters. As canon
> stands right now - I do not know that, although I won't be
> surprised if we will learn that Snape did know that Lily got
> pregnant before he delivered Prophecy, maybe same day or something.

Toonmili: Ouch, I can't believe you said that.  There was no way he could have known.  Lily and James trice defied Voldemort. I doubt they went about advertising it that Lily was expecting.

How do you think they knew it was someone close to them who was
spying.  They only told a very few amount of people and somehow Voldemort found out they had a child.  Unless you think that Lily wrote Snape and told him that she was having a baby. There is no way he could know that was expecting unless they were in touch.  And I think we can assume that they weren't.


>Alla:  So, I do not **care** why Snape did that. All that I know
> that he did, he as far as I am concerned in cold blood delivered
> two people and their unborn babt to the monster. I absolutely find
> this despicable.

Toonmili: I never said that he was a good person. It was not a good
thing to do.  But it is important why he did it.  What if his back was against the wall just as Draco's had been.

> Alla: Dumbledore says that Snape regretted it when he learned the
> couple names? Maybe, as I said I want to hear it from Snape's mouth
> to believe it.

Toonmili: Dumbeldore's word has always been good enough for me. He
seems to trust the right people.

> Alla:
>
> His home life was horrible? Again, maybe, maybe not IMO. We do not
> know who the people in that memory were and I will not be surprised
> if none of them was Snape.
>
> His DE life was not fun and games? Okay. Am I supposed to feel sorry
> for Snape choosing it then?


Toonmili: That is why I think it is important we understand why he
joined the death eaters.  We don't know if joined on his own accord,
if he was tricked, if he was forced, we just don't know.

And the memories form Occlumency are his, unless you are suggesting that Snape has someone else's memories in his head and finds tham so personal that he wants to hide it from Harry.


> Alla:
>
> If faced with hard cold canon sure I will, LOL, but only then. And
> as I cheerfully promised on list, I will write a long apology to
> Severus  Snape - the Saint of all Causes.

Toonmili: Then you should start typing from now. :)