Re: Snape's reasons to be in LV's side (HBP spoiler)


drusilla wrote:
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> (BTW, this will be my last post till October 10, as my son's school has one
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Enjoy your "family time"!

> First, Don't forget that Snape is ambitious, as he is Slytherin (don't start
> witht the 'no all Slytherin are bad', I am no t saying that...) and in his
> case, what he wants might not be world domination but simply revenge. And
> his revenge has to be against the people he hates the most: James and
> Sirius, who are both dead.

How do you account for Dumbledore's story that when Snape learned
Voldemort was going to take out the Potters, he felt "great remorse"?
If Snape was lying at this point (and fooled Dumbledore) what was his
motive? If you don't discount the story, either 1) Snape hated James,
but did not really want him dead, or, he did not want Lily dead. The
second would suggest a motive to hate Voldemort...


> Also, he has 'one of them' as his personal slave,
> Peter. There is no way he could have been in that position in DD's side, as
> he even thought that all his hate could be easily forget in order to help
> James' son.

Is Peter Snape's slave? Or is Peter spying on Snape? (Well, he clearly
is spying on Snape...what I really mean is, has Voldemort *instructed*
Peter to spy on Snape?)

> I also wonder? Does Snape sees himself in Voldemort? We don't know how much
> of LV's privete life his DE know, but Snape and the Dark Lord have much in
> common. VOldemort hates his father as he left his mother (I recall he said
> 'he didn't like magic' or something) and he murdered him. We saw Snape's
> father bullying Eillen Prince. Was this what caused Snape wished to join the
> DE? Did he ever think 'why my mother, a witch, can be so easily scared by
> this muggle'?, then, that must have cause some sort of dislike for muggles
> shared by the common DE.

This is an interesting point in any case and could certainly be a
reason that attracted Snape to the DEs in the first place.

> Also, DD offered Snape the chance to join them instead of Azkaban, but if LV
> ever manages to conquer the wizardkind, there is no Azkaban for Snape.

This certainly gives Snape a reason to stay on Dumbledore's side
between the first fall of Voldemort and his return. However, Snape
(apparently) went over the DD's side before anyone had any idea that
Voldemort would be defeated...

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