Snape & Draco WAS A Defense of Snape

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 165753


> Eggplant:
> > I hope JKR doesn't pursue this, trading Dumbledore's life for 
> > slime ball Draco seems like a poor idea and a very poor plot 
> > element.


Valky:
I don't see it as a poor plot element, myself. And I am quite sure it
won't be denied, rather it will probably be confirmed, that DD would
have, and did consider it a noble and worthy cause that his death was,
among other things, a protection of Draco's young life. 



> Carol:
> Well, I'd rather that she hadn't brought in the Unbreakable Vow and
> had Snape kill Dumbledore on the tower because I hate what it's done
> to Snape. (Either I'm wrong and he's evil or he's suffering
> unendurable mental anguish and traded the reluctant trust of his
> fellow Order members for the hatred of the whole WW and terrible
> danger.) I'd much rather that Dumbledore had died from the poison or
> even that Draco had succeeded in killing him. when I said "better
> Snape than Draco," I was expressing what I believe to be JKR's and
> Dumbledore's view, not my own. 


Valky:
LOL Carol :) if Snape is anything but pure evil, he sure has a way
with martyring himself, doesn't he. 

As you know my what my position is regards to the tower events, I
won't rehash it all over again, I'll just say I find myself more
inclined to JKR's view here, it is better Snape than Draco, and 
better it appears to be Snape than appears to have been the poison,
which is just too big an information leak in the bigger picture, were
that the case. Sympathy to what may be Snape's position comes into it
for me but not to the extent where I would think it better to protect
him than Draco, not to the point where I think Snape just a helpless
victim all his days. 

If you and I are right, a lot has been asked of Snape in the last
couple of years of his life, that's true, but I think it factors
strongly that there is 25+ years of his life which we can only
speculate upon, and those years surely meter it and demonstrate a
Snape that has made his own choices freely, a Snape who *is*
responsible for his own predicaments and battles and choices therein.