I believe that in J.K. Rowlings next book that this is what will be revealed.
Professor Snape did NOT actuallly kill Dumbledore; remeber this: "one can't ALWAYS believe what one sees." I feel he was made to look like he did in order to get the entire group of Death Eaters into Hogwarts. This done, he and the others of the Order of the Phoenix will (with the help of Harry Potter) finally take out Volemort for good - along with his followers.
I truly believe that poor Snape was given the same opportunity as was young Harry, when the sorting hat was placed on his head. He knowing that Dumbledore had already explained to him; the necessity of him being placed in the house of Slytherine. Did just that. This way he could keep a close eye on the already rotten Voldemort.
I also believe that he has made the ultimate sacarifice for the good of all of Hogwarts and the Wizard world. Only he, professor McGonagall, and Dumbledore know of his fate in all this. Poor Snape.
He is made out to despise Harry, when in reality he has made an oath to protect him at all cost!!! _________________ Please check out my site and let me know what you thought of it and games I have on it. Also check out my group site on my space.com and tell me if it does Harry Potter fans justice.Thanks
We already have that theory going here too. See the posts on Dumbledore returns. _________________ You're just jealous cause the voices only talk to me!
no. its impossible because snape made the unbreakuble vow that if it looked like draco would fail snape would do it. and draco looked like he was gonna fail. so all in all snapes evil. _________________ im here for speculation.
Snape is not evil. I am 100% sure of it. (But i dont want to explain since there is already another long thread discussing this) LOL but we'll see in book 7. _________________
hey, blade and HRH2013:
"1. Snape Lies to Narcissa and Bellatrix... Twice
During the meeting that Snape has at his house with Narcissa and Bellatrix in chapter 2, Snape tries to explain to them why he never killed Harry all those years at Hogwarts when he had ample opportunity:
"Of course, it became apparent to me very quickly that he had no extraordinary talent at all. He has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends. He is mediocre to the last degree..." (HBP pg 31/36)
But we know Snape knows this is a lie. We know Snape knows that Harry is a powerful wizard. We know he knows Harry is a parselmouth. We know he knows Harry could conjure a corporeal patronus when he was just 13 years old. We know he knows Harry has stood up to and prevailed against Voldemort five times!
But not even one whole page later, Narcissa is crying to Snape she has something she wants to say, but has been forbidden to talk about by Voldemort. Snape immediately replies that she should follow Voldemort's orders, and sister Bellatrix agrees. But Snape appears troubled by the conversation:
But Snape had gotten to his feet and strode to the small window, peered through the curtains, and then closed them again with a jerk. He turned around to face Narcissa, frowning. (HBP pg 32/37)
What happened to make him jerk the curtains closed all of a sudden and turn back to the women, frowning? Has he had a revelation?
It is only at this point that he confides in them that he already knows the plan, that Voldemort has already told him. He's lying again!
If he already knew the plan, why would he have taken the position, just one moment earlier, that she should follow Voldemort's law and not speak of it?
We know Snape is a powerful Legilimens, we learned that in the Occlumency scenes with Snape and Harry in Order of the Phoenix. Just in case we forgot about Legilimency, J.K. mentioned it just a few pages ago. Questioning Voldemort's trust in Snape, Snape interrupts:
"You think he is mistaken? Or that I somehow hoodwinked him? Fool the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?" (HBP pg 26/31)
Having just been on the verge of spilling the beans to Snape, Draco's assignment must have been top-most in Narcissa's thoughts, and in the quiet moment at the window, Snape saw it in her mind. He then lies to them about already knowing the plan, to gain their trust.
So, at the same time that Snape is trying to convince Narcissa and Bellatrix that he's worthy of Voldemort's trust, we can see he is lying to them, several times. That can only mean that Snape isn't as loyal to Voldemort as he'd like Bellatrix and Narcissa (and us!) to believe."
Here are some opened questions:
"here are three unanswered aspects to this question.
First, do unbreakable vows have a time limit? It's unlikely they do, because you'd think it would have to be stated when the vow was made, and no such time limit was set.
But if they don't have time limits, then it's sort of hard to enforce an unbreakable vow, isn't it?
"Hey! You didn't fulfill your promise! You're dead!" "No wait! I just haven't gotten around to it, you can't kill me yet!"
Second, I believe if you re-read all of chapter 2, you will see that the exact details of Draco's task are never spoken outloud in that scene, we only learn of the details later.
If the exact nature of what Snape's promising to do are not spoken exactly, but possibly only an understanding between the parties, what promise is he held to, exactly? Can he be held to details of a vow that weren't expressly stated? Am I watching too many lawyer shows on TV?
One of Draco's main tasks was to fix the vanishing cabinet so he could sneak his Death Eater pals into Hogwarts. Perhaps that's what Snape vowed to help with, and in that case, Draco suceeeded, so Snape's off the hook.
Third, this unanswerable question is based on the assumption that Dumbledore isn't really dead, so Snape didn't kill him, so he didn't fulfill the vow.
But what if the person you made the vow with thinks you fulfilled it? The world, including Narcissa and Bellatrix (and you, possibly, up until you read this site! thinks that Dumbledore is dead. So does that fulfill Snape's vow?
This one is possibly unanswerable until we can either dig out some more clues buried elsewhere in the book, or possibly we won't know until book 7."
i really don't think snape is on voldemort's side. it's either he's on dumbledore's or on his own. but after pocket's post in the other topic, it's quite easy to think he's with dumbledore.... but i doubt mcgonagall knows. _________________
There is a big possibility that only Dumbledore and Snape knew about this "plan". Have you checked the site? It really convinced me... _________________ Sonita
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thinks that Dumbledore is dead. So does that fulfill Snape's vow?
