Folly, Part NIne
Snape’s life has been a series of spectacular errors of judgment, to put it kindly.
This has to have been his worst.
Chapter Summary: The headmaster can be very persuasive.
“He certainly knew what was right, nor could she fix on any one article of moral duty evidently transgressed, but yet she would have been afraid to answer for his conduct ( Read more... )
This has to have been his worst.
Chapter Summary: The headmaster can be very persuasive.
“He certainly knew what was right, nor could she fix on any one article of moral duty evidently transgressed, but yet she would have been afraid to answer for his conduct ( Read more... )
Yes, that's a badger--Sev's Hufflepuff characteristics coming to the fore. Neville's virtues do rather inspire emulation.
In fact, I haven't worked out who he contacts first. Nor how he's going to deal with the fact that all his potential allies in the WW will be as dismissive of Muggles as Albus is (as Sev had been before Abby and Miss Platting and and Mr. Jepperson and...)
Nor have I figured out the lengths to which Twinkles is prepared to go to try to make Severus once more "Dumbledore's man through and through." Twinkles doesn't see himself as evil, after all. Just driven by necessity, and knowing better than everyone else what needs to be done. And why wouldn't the bastard thrive in France, out of (Severus's) sight, out of mind? Making quiet provision for the bastard to be reared in discreet seclusion was the way one an honorable person handled this sort of situation, after all. You never saw Colonel Brandon trying to rear Eliza's daughter in his home, or Harriet Smith's father reading her bedtime stories. Albus hasn't proposed anything untoward or inhumane.
As to Sev's approaching Albus--remember, not only did he need to make arrangements for the boy for when the term starts-- he also did not start the interview blessed with anything like the view of Dumbledore you and I now share. He believed the headmaster virtuous, and concerned with the well-being of the vulnerable, and all like that. This was the man Severus had gone to for Lily's protection, and who he'd thought had pledged him to the protection of Lily's child on her death. He trusted him. He'd thought, even, of telling Albus the true story. But fortunately Albus's condescension towards Muggles raised his hackles quickly enough to prevent that....
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But Severus was expecting the doe. The ally could only be someone Severus felt safe with seeing that image associated with him (however the recipient interprets it).
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Or, of course, he was panicked enough not to care. Dumbledore intends to take HIS SON from him and send the child to France to be reared by strangers--is this really the time to worry about who figures out he still has a schoolboy crush on Lily?
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Someone who might have insight to the question why Albus is so adamant that Voldemort was going to return.
Someone who has a strong reason not to want Voldemort to return.
Someone Severus feels relatively safe with.
So far Lucius is the top candidate, unless you want to add an original character - perhaps the parent of one of the current Slytherins who might owe Severus something.
It will be a challenge not to repeat entire chunks of Unlikely Allies, because sooner or later Severus will run into the Horcruxes. Of course Lucius might remember the diary.
Hmm, Severus and Lucius destroy the diary, they think they solved the problem, when they hardly scratched the surface.
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Right now he's not focussed on Voldemort, however, so that won't be a consideration in who he calls first. His first concern is to put a spanner in Albus's plan to pack Neville off to France and see that Severus forgets about him, in the best interests of the child.
(I didn't notice until I started to write this comment, but here's Albus wanting to pack a child off to people who don't know or want or love him, on the grounds that a)it will be better for the child to be raised as an anonymous nobody, and b)Albus's placement would be the safest place for him should Voldemort return. Hmm--I'd wondered if I'd been keeping Albus consistent with canon, and it looks like I am!)
But no, I don't want to take this in anything at all the same direction as UA.
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Really, I'm reminded of Remus in book 6, when Harry is venting his suspicions of Snape: I trust Dumbledore, therefore I trust Snape.
That really is what Twinkles demanded of people, wasn't it?
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