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

[zgirnius]

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> Nikkalmati:
> There is a whole lot I am tempted to say on this general topic, but I feel bad for jumping in so late. 

Zara:
It is never too late ro bring up Snape. In this poster's opinoin, anyway. <g>

> Nikkalmati:
> I do think he feels compassion for Narcissa and maybe taking the vow helped her to sleep easy, but that is not enough reason to risk an untimely death.  Afterall, the vow could be broken accidentally and at any time.  It could have seriously disrupted DD's plan, if SS died first. 

Zara:
While this is quite possibly true, have we any evidence that Snape knew this at the time he made the decision, in "Spinner's End"? That scene of HBP occured shortly after the DH scene in "The Prince's Tale" in which Snape contains the damage done to Albus by the Ring Horcrux's curse. In that conversation, the only plan Albus confides to Severus concerns Draco - to handle Voldemort's plan for Draco by having Snape do it instead. 

> Nikkalmati:
> I also agree that if LV found out, he would have been angry and not at all convinced that SS was a loyal Death Eater.  I finally decided that SS took the vow because he hoped it would convince Draco to trust him and confide in him. 

Zara:
This also makes sense as a reason. And fits in with that same DH conversation, in which Albus asks him to do precisely this. WE also see Snape try to convince Draco to confide in him in HBP (the conversation Harry overhears during Sluggie's party). 

> Nikkalmati:
> Wouldn't that have worked out nicely for SS and DD? The unfortunate fact is that Bella convinced Draco not to trust SS and the purpose of the vow went unfulfilled.

Zara:
I'm not sure what you mean here. Whay possibilities do you see for how it could have worked out differently?