[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort's Intentions & Snape's Expectations

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 189807

On 11/29/2010 7:08 PM, Shelley wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 1:47 AM, Mike wrote:
>>> 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.
>>        Bart:
>>
>>        OK, did nobody but me read that Sirius Black, in GOF, said, "Snape
>> knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in the
>> seventh year"? Snape was a genius, and as such, very useful to Morty.
>>
>>        Bart
> Shelley:
> I am really with Mike on this one. Voldemort was nobody's friend. He
> didn't "do stuff" for other people. Either he was trying to get
> something to hold over Snape's head, or he never intended to keep that
> promise and never felt sorry about killing Lilly anyway, because that's
> what he does- murder anyone who stands in his way.

Bart:
I never said anything about "friend". The fact that Morty saw people as 
tools does not mean that he saw them as INTERCHANGEABLE tools. More 
useful tools deserved better treatment than less useful ones.

     Bart