GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 182264

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>> 
> Alla:
> 
> Really?  I thought it was nothing to Snape if baby and husband of 
> woman he loves will die even if he will be the catalyst of their 
> death. I know you are joking (or are you?) but I do not believe 
that 
> saying that WW should do something to help Harry and being 
disgusted 
> if they are not equals this in any way shape or form.
> 
> So, yeah, I agree what Snape did was disgusting. Turns out he 
quite 
> happily could stomach baby's dying after all.
>

Leah: Just for the record, at no time does Snape ask *DD* just to 
save Lily.  He tells DD that Voldemort believes the prophecy to 
refer to Lily Evans, or rather her child, and ends by saying that 
Voldemort intends to 'kill them all'.   It is DD who then asks why 
Snape has not asked Voldemort to spare Lily, and Snape of course 
says he already has done.  It is that which 'disgusts' DD (and he is 
a fine one to talk). From what Voldemort says in DH, Snape 
presumably asks for Lily as the object of his desire, which would be 
the one convincing reason for a DE asking for the life of a 
muggleborn.   I can not think of any way in which Snape could 
convincingly have asked Voldemort for the lives of James and Harry 
(the prophecy child himself) without getting himself AK'd and 
sealing Lily's fate.  After DD does the 'disgusted' bit, Snape 
says, 'Save them all'.  

Leah