Voldemort's Intentions & Snape's Expectations

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 189802

Mike:
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> What I don't get is why Voldemort made the promise in the first place. Snape certainly wasn't high enough in rank to garner such special consideration. It would seem more in character for LV to punish Snape for making such a request, than to grant it.

Pippin:
There's no special consideration involved. Snape isn't asking for much, from Voldemort's point of view. Voldemort doesn't know and cannot imagine that Snape wants Lily to be spared because he loves her. If Snape is so perverse in his tastes as to fancy a Muggleborn, well, that might be offensive to Lucius (and a wedge between Snape and Lucius might be useful one day) but it's of small concern to Voldemort. It's not as if Snape is any use to the pureblood breeding program himself.

Nor does Voldemort think people will serve with no hope of reward. Only those fools who love would do that. He can terrify people into obedience or enchant them of course, but such servants are suitable only for the crudest tasks. 

Pippin