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

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 188917



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lealess" <lealess at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67@> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> I think the reason is partially found in the other boy Snape swore to protect, Draco Malfoy.  At some point in HBP, Snape probably realized he couldn't protect Malfoy, even at pain of losing his own soul or his life, as long as Voldemort remained alive.  While Lily's death made Snape a life-long enemy of Voldemort, the danger to and compromise of his friends' son must have strengthened his perception that Voldemort had to go at any cost.  Since Dumbledore seemed to have the means to eliminate Voldemort, Snape had to follow Dumbledore's plan.
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> Hope this makes sense,
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Nikkalmati

It does make sense that Snape shifted his goals because he wanted to destroy LV.  I do like Pippin's suggestion that the note he found from Lily directed him toward the conclusion that he could allow Harry to die.  I do have one problem though.  What in the world was DD's plan?  DD did not know Harry would live and it does seem to have been a near thing.  Therefore, who was going to kill LV after Harry died and took the horcrux with him?  Did DD expect Snape to use the Elder Wand to do the deed?  Did he expect some other order member to kill him?  Did he tell Snape anything about how LV would be disposed of?

Nikkalmati