[HPforGrownups] Characters' inconsistencies WAS: Re:What did you like about Harry Potter?

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 183849

Winterfell:
Actually it is by definition both an irony and an inconsistency. An
inconsistency is : displaying or marked by a lack of consistency,
especially not regular or predictable, erratic: inconsistent
behavior. Snape's actions (untill the noble reasons we find out
about were later discovered) in AK'ing DD were not viewed as regular
or predictable as a member of the OotP and as a trusted friend and
colleague of DD.

Lynda:
It is not an inconsistency in Snape's character. One of the biggest
"gimme's" in HBP was the conversation with Bella and Narcissa at Spinner's
end in which Snape states "I have played my part well."  He did what he
needed to do to fulfill his promise to Dumbledore and for the memory of
Lily.  Of course the rest of the OOP could not know that he was a double
agent, there was too much of a chance of someone letting it slip.  There was
a saying in WWII days.  "Loose lips sink ships." The best way to keep lips
from being loosened is to not let people in on unnecessary knowledge. And
the knowledge that Snape was feeding LV information, false or otherwise, was
judged as just that. Unnecessary for the rest of the OOP to know.

Lynda


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