[the_old_crowd] Re: What If He Didn't Tell All? (very LONG)

[susiequsie23]

Kneasy:
>>>Revulsion and hatred for what? For DD or for what has happened to him and 
for he who was responsible for it? I like to think it's the latter.<<<

SSSusan:
Kneasy, are you referring to *Harry* here?  To Voldy?  Just who are you saying is responsible for what's happened to DD?


Kneasy:
>>>And I also like to think that there was a previous agreement between the two - "If I get 
something  terminally nasty - DO IT!" <<<

SSSusan:
Totally agree.  This has been my take from the get-go.  NOT that DD's death *that* particular night, in *that* particular way, was planned out, but just that Snape & DD had talked about the possibility and about what Snape was to do should he find DD with "something terminally nasty."

   
Kneasy:
>>>Right at that moment who will be more use to Harry in the future? 
A dying/dead DD or a strong Snape behind enemy lines? No contest.  
Everyone is expendable - except Harry.<<<

SSSusan:
I agree that a strong Snape will be more useful than a dying DD *but*... DOES Snape know that everyone but Harry is expendable?  

I have been pissed at Snape for years, for his unwillingness to do something -- anything! -- to see that Harry learns, *really* learns.  (This is old news to you, Kneasy; you've read my bitching about Snape & his teaching methods where they concern Harry in particular, his unwillingness to CHANGE anything in order to try to get Harry to learn more fully.)  But then someone pointed out that I was going upon the assumption that Snape *knew* the full contents of the prophecy, that Snape *knew* that Harry was It -- the WW's Only Hope of getting rid of Voldy -- and that that assumption might just be wrong.  

According to DD in HBP, that assumption indeed was wrong, for he stated that only DD & Harry knew the full contents of the prophecy.

It's true that DD might still have told Snape that Harry was It, without ever having told him the contents of the prophecy nor how he knew this to be true, but is it possible that DD never did so?  That DD's focus on Harry and insistence about Harry's importance has always been something Snape never fully understood or agreed with?  If so, then does Snape believe in Harry's "unexpendability"?

I'd like to think that by now Snape does know & believe this... but I'm just not sure it's true.

Siriusly Snapey Susan


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