Snape's Psychology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[Alice]

No: HPFGUIDX 187527

Carol:
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> Anyway, I agree with Alla that Snape is thinking only of Lily and that Harry and James are afterthoughts, but I don't think that's terrible. At least he's concerned about *somebody,* and he has to start somewhere. He can't go from loyal DE to "lately, only those whom I could not save" in an instant. It starts with Lily, then moves to "her--them," then becomes a kind of mission to protect Harry despite hating him because he looks like James (whom he hated but didn't want to die, just as he didn't want Harry to die in SS/PS), and eventually, to >saving people he doesn't know or dislikes, if he can, when he can.

MadAlice:
>:>

Also, realistically, it is probably not likely that Voldemort will spare Harry, since the prophecy names him as being the Dark Lord's downfall--maybe Snape is just being realistic and asking for what he things he can get (and he obviously is not very secure about that, since he subsequently goes to Dumbledore)