[the_old_crowd] Re: My HBP Review

[ewe2]

The hills are alive
with a rain of spoilers
The groans will be heard
for a thousand yearrrrrrs
The Lists fill my posts with a screen of spoilers
My feet want to stomp every spoiler I hearrrrrr....


On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:45:28AM -0000, pippin_999 wrote:

> Pippin:
> Same reason Dumbledore couldn't say, "This is why I trust Severus."
> Harry is no occlumens. Harry is not going to trust Snape without
> proof no matter what Dumbledore says, and the proof, as I've said,
> would be dangerous because it *is* proof. It would convince Harry 
> and Voldie too. No good. This way, Snape is able to go on spying
> a little longer. A year longer, by which time he will have lots of 
> information to deliver. Fawkes can prove his loyalty, though 
> Harry will probably have to make the decision to trust Snape without
> his help.

For whom is he spying now?! Who is going to be interested in his information?
Isn't it obvious he's burnt _that_ particular bridge? If his proof is so
earth-shatteringly good, enough to convince _both_ sides of where he _really_
stands, he's only going to need _that_, if he can provide it in time. The
Order are no less keen than Harry to off a Snape in the night.

Spy!Snape is so weak a premise now it amounts to a future Flint if kept. It
doesn't preclude Secretly-Good!Snape but that's long enough a bow as it is.

ewe2, rounding up the firing-squad, which isn't easy because penguins are hard
to corral.

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