Snape, Snape, Snape--favorite moments: Spinner's End

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 169288

I have been reading this thread and I don't know if anyone's 
mentioned this yet, but forgive me if someone has.

Snape at Spinner's End.

This is *the* chapter for me.  He totally owns Bellatrix, and 
Narcissa as well.  The way he puts Wormtail in his place, 
effortlessly turning him into his servant...the way he turns the two 
sisters on each *other*.  And it all seems completely effortless.  
They are completely outclassed.     

This chapter definitively proves for me that he is NOT Voldemort's 
servant. because I cannot see Snape serving a wizard that is his 
mental inferior. Voldemort hasn't a chance against Snape.  This 
chapter is I think the best one Rowling has written, in that it makes 
Snape into a greater hero/villain than Dumbledore or Voldemort--and 
he becomes the hero and the villain both at the same time.  

The only time Snape gives anything at all away is when his hand 
twitches slightly just before he has to promise to kill Dumbledore if 
Draco can't.

In a sea of other indicators that Snape is DDM, that tiny twitch of 
his hand is the one that speaks loudest to me.  At the end of a 
chapter where Snape is so masterfully in control, his hand, the one 
that would have to wield his wand, betrays him.  

Snape would rather do anything than promise to kill Dumbledore.