Another take on what happened

[dungrollin]

Tinker
Tailor
Soldier 
Sailor
Rich man 
Poor man 
Beggarman
SPY!

Eloise wrote:
> Thanks to Dungrollin for comfort, :-)  but I had another thought 
this afternoon.
> 
> I don't like it.
> 
> OK. Posit for just a teeny moment that our Severus *is* ESE. 
(Don't laugh, you Snape revilers!) Now, what's given me pause for 
thought is that there have been times when Snape could have let harm 
come to Harry but he's deliberately intervened. Why should he do 
that? Why not let him fall off his broomstick? Why not let him go 
wandering round Hogsemeade when (apparently) a murderous Sirius is 
looking for him?
> 
> This *does* make some sense if we assume that Snape is a real 
> Slytherin, whose concern is only for himself. Assume (as Sirius 
said of Pettigrew) he just aligns himself with the biggest bully in 
the playground and that, as he tells Bella, he *did* believe 
Voldemort dead, or at least out of action for the forseeable future, 
then what was the harm in aligning himself with Dumbledore, even to 
the extent of protecting Dumbledore's favourite from harm?
> 
> Then the golden opportunity came. Dumbledore sent him back to spy 
on Voldemort. He abides his time. Voldemort has been in no hurry to 
> escalate the war, so he can carry on, as he thinks convincing 
> Dumbledore more and more of his usefulness and loyalty.
> 
<snipped>

Dungrollin:
What doesn't make sense is why he should have alerted the Order when 
he realised that Harry hadn't come back from the forest at the end 
of OotP. And Voldy obviously still doesn't know it was Snape's fault 
the order turned up, because that fiasco was blamed on Lucius and 
Bella.


> ~Eloise
> Whose final straw is the unrevealed proof of loyalty.

Dungrollin:
A very clever person (Cara) pointed out on HPfGU
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/133900
That Phineas Nigellus appears to know why DD trusted Snape.

HBP, chapter 17, A Sluggish Memory (p336, UK)
"I have been tolerant enough to answer that question already,"
said Dumbledore, but he did not sound very tolerant any more. "My
answer has not changed."
"I should think not," said a snide voice; Phineas Nigellus was
evidently only pretending to be asleep. Dumbledore ignored him.

And then pointed out that Phineas has a portrait in 12GP, apparently 
where Harry will be going at some point, since he owns it. Which 
would enable us to find out the secret pretty quickly.

Will 12GP still be OotP HQ if Snape can now reveal the whereabouts 
to Voldemort? Will Snape have got there first, and pinched Phineas's 
painting? 

Dungrollin
Eyeing a big box of DELUSIONAL badges, and staring pointedly at the 
posters she *knows* agree with her...