HBP:First Impressions

[nrenka]

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> Pippin, could I use your post? And possibly you as a witness? I'm 
> on the defense team in the Accio Snape Trial, and after joking that 
> Book Six would contain a 'smoking wand' Snape event, now find that 
> I was right...

So here's a question about another (so far undiscussed) Nasty Snape 
Action in HBP:

I can see the whole argument over killing Dumbledore, and see all the 
outs--although I'm lukewarm on some of them from thematic 
considerations.  My sense of irony really likes the idea of Harry, 
who is (so we are told) always wrong about Snape, being dead right 
for once.

But when Snape brags to Cissy and Bella about having ratted out on 
Emmeline Vance, is he lying or not?  Some are tempted to put 
everything he says in that chapter into the category.  She had to get 
dead somehow, though.  I know that Pippin will soon enlighten us as 
how to Lupin actually did it, of course. :)

So is this Opportunist!Snape taking credit for something he didn't 
actually do to up his cred with the women, or is this a case where he 
really did the deed?

In addition (and unrelated), the question of why Voldemort told Lily 
to stand aside is solved.  He didn't want her death for a Horcrux--he 
wanted Harry's, and she was getting in the way.  She refuses, he 
kills her and activates the protection, then tries to kill Harry *and 
make use of his death*, and things go wacky.

I...I never thought I'd be saying this, but the TOO EWWW theory is 
making a lot of sense right now.

-Nora (eww!  EWWWW!)