Doing it for Lily? was Re: Snape and Harry and expulsion LONG

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 188893

> Alla wrote:
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> Really? Well, I disagree. Plain meaning of Dumbledore asking Snape to convey the information which will lead to Harry's death and Snape doing it, means to me that Snape indeed doing it on Dumbledore's request. I am sure Snape can do mental gymnastics and convince himself that he is doing for Lily as well, since she would be happy if WW is saved, but to me that just does not fly. His boss asked him and that's what he does, it is very simple to me.

Carol responds:

I think we can rule out that he was doing it for Harry, at least! But I agree with you that it would require mental gymnastics to convince himself that he was doing it for Lily. In effect, DD is now asking him to *stop* protecting Harry, as he has done since Lily's death so that her death will not be in vain, and send Harry to his death.

Now why would Snape do that, when he's appalled by it and when he's already agreed against his will to kill Dumbledore? I don't think that loyalty to Dumbledore is a sufficient motive. He needs something stronger. The only motive that seems sufficient to me is the desire to destroy Voldemort forever. And if that destruction requires the death of the boy he's tried all this time to save, then Snape really has no choice but to tell Harry about that soul bit, counting on him (as DD also did) to walk voluntarily to his death, making a sacrifice like his mother's but for the good of all, not just the good of one person.

In short, Snape agreed to tell Harry what Harry needed to know to destroy Voldemort. From there, it was up to Harry.

Carol, who has no doubt that Snape wanted Voldemort dead