Snape flying away

[allthecoolnamesgone]

No: HPFGUIDX 187295

 
> Marianne:
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> Hope I've got the right person that goes with the thread.

Karen responds

Yes you have.
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> I was always under the impression  at the good luck paragraph that the apprehenison on Dumbledore's face was because he didn't totally trust Snape and perhaps had a bit of worry that Snape would not be his spy and go to and stay with LV and DE.  Not necessarily Snape's fate in the end.
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> Marianne
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Karen responds:

It just goes to show how we all read things differently. When I first read this part I 'knew' that Snape was a double agent and that he was utterly loyal to Dumbledore for some reason that we were not to know until later in the series. Dumbledore however did know Snape's motivation, his love for Lily, so would he truly have thought that Snape would go back and willingly serve the one who had murdered Lily, and thereby bring about the death of her son, the only bit of her still left in the world.

I did have a post HBP doubt about Snape's loyalty, but only a slight one, and thought even on the sketchy evidence we had that he had been ordered to preserve his cover at all costs short of Harry's death. 
Dumbledore told Harry on a number of occasions that he trusted Professor Snape completely so for that reason I didn't read that dialogue as showing a lack of trust but rather a real worry that he was sending him to an unpleasant death. I felt at the time and still do that even though Dumbledore 'used' Snape, he did care for him personally not just as a tool which served his masterplan. 

Karen (allthecoolnamesgone)