HBP - are there any other themes?!
Right now after gallopping through HBP (at least he got his own title *sniff*) in 4 hours I can't see it making sense with anything other than ellid's avenue of thinking (Snape being asked/ordered to kill AD by the headmaster himself) combined with the Unbreakable Vow given to Narcissa.
It doesnt't make any SENSE if he was evil all the while and what? let all those thousands of opportunities to off AD and more importantly Potter without any risks and witnesses gone by?
And notice he didn't make an attempt on Harry even now, even after AD killed and out of his way and having HP unarmed and at his mercy? After saving AD's injured arm and the curse spread as Dumbledore told himself?
And while I'm not the biggest fan of AD there is I don't think him that gullible without having a solid, valid reason to trust Snape. He must have proven himself and his allegiance to the "good" side over the years sufficiently to Dumbledore.
I don't think DD would be so fundamentally wrong about someones character and personality until the very end - even when Snape was seconds before uttering the AK there was no "you traitor, how could you?! I trusted you all these years!" from Dumbledore! Instead after returning from the cave his only wish was to get to Severus, he wanted to see him desperately and more than anyone else...
Until I've read the very last sentence of book 7 I won't believe Snape is evil and betrayed Dumbledore (at all or at least without any valid reason).
If JKR stands with the "Slytherins are all evil, unhinged, cowardly and unpleasant and Snape being the king and embodiement of it all"; when she still holds that version when the saga ends I believe it - not earlier.
Well, and then I'm going firmly AU as of OotP-ending and will never look back (or forward) when it comes to Snape-canon!
It doesnt't make any SENSE if he was evil all the while and what? let all those thousands of opportunities to off AD and more importantly Potter without any risks and witnesses gone by?
And notice he didn't make an attempt on Harry even now, even after AD killed and out of his way and having HP unarmed and at his mercy? After saving AD's injured arm and the curse spread as Dumbledore told himself?
And while I'm not the biggest fan of AD there is I don't think him that gullible without having a solid, valid reason to trust Snape. He must have proven himself and his allegiance to the "good" side over the years sufficiently to Dumbledore.
I don't think DD would be so fundamentally wrong about someones character and personality until the very end - even when Snape was seconds before uttering the AK there was no "you traitor, how could you?! I trusted you all these years!" from Dumbledore! Instead after returning from the cave his only wish was to get to Severus, he wanted to see him desperately and more than anyone else...
Until I've read the very last sentence of book 7 I won't believe Snape is evil and betrayed Dumbledore (at all or at least without any valid reason).
If JKR stands with the "Slytherins are all evil, unhinged, cowardly and unpleasant and Snape being the king and embodiement of it all"; when she still holds that version when the saga ends I believe it - not earlier.
Well, and then I'm going firmly AU as of OotP-ending and will never look back (or forward) when it comes to Snape-canon!