HBP First impressions - SPOILERS within!

[Charme]

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>Aberforth's Goat wrote:
>My take is that Snape has been definitively outed as a GOOD
>GUY - and a good guy who is going through hell. He killed Dumbledore
>partly because (as Pippin points out) Dumbledore was already dying -
>even more to keep Draco from becoming a murderer - and finally
>Dumbledore had already ordered him to do so.

Charme:

Hasn't it been just a fabulous weekend??? :)

My 2 cents:  Perhaps DD trusted Snape because DD, being the clever old man 
he is, he had Snape make an Unbreakable Promise with him. Judging by what I 
perceive to be Bellatrix's astonished reaction to the fact Snape would do 
one with Narcissa and Ron's statements about how his parents reacted when 
the twins tried to get him to do one when he was young,  I think they are 
both uncommon and intensely personal. Hence why DD might not say why he 
trusted Snape, just that he does.

Speculation of course, but I suspect the potion that DD drank in the cave 
(and ooouu didn't he drink a lot of it) when retrieving the locket is the 
Draught of the Living Death. I do not know that given the amount of time 
between when DD drank it and Snape arrived that the tower that Snape could 
provide an antidote.

The most poignant sentence of the whole book for me:

""I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger 
despite the freezing water. "I am with you."



Charme