cross-pollinating clues (a little OT)

[ewe2]

Something odd is going on at another fan list I belong to, blakes7 (remember
that old sci-fi series?), where, one after the other, members are unmasking
themselves as Potterverse fans and making connections between the WW and the
series anti-heros. Avon naturally corresponds to Shape, and if Tarrant isn't a
smarmy Slytherin, I don't know who is. Blakes7 denizens are no slouches at
speed chess fanfic either, and a rapid cross-pollination between wizards and
the Federation ensues, much to everyone's amusement.

But in the process, one member let slip a LiveJournal URL where they discuss
Book 6 and made at least one point I don't recall seeing here. In

http://www.livejournal.com/users/vilakins/128236.html

Vilakins says this in Snape's defence:

And when Malfoy finally confronts Dumbledore and can't do it, Dumbledore lets
him (and us) know that he knew about it.

	"I appreciate the difficulty of your position," said Dumbledore. "Why else
	do you think I have not confronted you before now? Because I knew that you
	would have been murdered if Lord Voldemort realised that I suspected you."

The only way he'd know is if Snape told him; Harry had nothing but formless
suspicions.

Does this hold up? It hadn't occurred to me that this would count in Snape's
favour; I merely assumed he might have told DD to protect Draco.

It's been fascinating; the blakes7 list is in what I would call its gentle
dementia stage, and probably won't last much longer than the final release of
all four series on DVD (and we're up to no. 3 now), but sudden bursts of
creativity like this are still not uncommon - with characters as endearingly
cynical as Avon and Vila, as cheesily villainous as Servalan, and now with
series three, as mindlessly gung-ho as Dayna and Tarrant, there are endless
fun combinations to be had. I wonder if HP is doomed to become a TV series....

ewe2, enjoying the idea of a Levicorpus spell on Avon, but wondering if he
could survive the resulting phaser burns.

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