So this is the epic fic of doom, isn't it? Thanks for telling it to us! Putting together the pieces of "canon" Snape is a desperate entreprise. I don't get how a person who should be supposedly heartbroken over a long lost love could also enjoy being sarcastic. Snape should have been depressed from the start, not just snarky and sharp-tongued. I don't understand the need for the Order to use Snape as a spy - couldn't he just kill Voldemort in one of their meeting? Oh, right, there was the Prophecy, that litany of bullshit that DUMBLEDORE turned into action by sending Snape reporting it to Voldemort! It's so absurd. I'm sure Dumbledore, Snape, Frank Longbottom, Moody etc could have defeated Voldemort during the first war, had Dumbledore allowed Snape to pour something into Voldy's tea. Ah, but no, there were the Horcruxes. It seems to me that each one of these devices were created to prevent the only logical course of action: to let Snape kill Voldemort back in 1980, and then to take immediate care of the Horcruxes (Regulus knew about them!!! How could Dumbledore care about their existence only twenty years later?) .
Sorry for the rambling. It's all so messed up in canon.
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Date: Monday, 10 January 2011 08:53 am (UTC)Putting together the pieces of "canon" Snape is a desperate entreprise. I don't get how a person who should be supposedly heartbroken over a long lost love could also enjoy being sarcastic. Snape should have been depressed from the start, not just snarky and sharp-tongued. I don't understand the need for the Order to use Snape as a spy - couldn't he just kill Voldemort in one of their meeting? Oh, right, there was the Prophecy, that litany of bullshit that DUMBLEDORE turned into action by sending Snape reporting it to Voldemort! It's so absurd. I'm sure Dumbledore, Snape, Frank Longbottom, Moody etc could have defeated Voldemort during the first war, had Dumbledore allowed Snape to pour something into Voldy's tea. Ah, but no, there were the Horcruxes. It seems to me that each one of these devices were created to prevent the only logical course of action: to let Snape kill Voldemort back in 1980, and then to take immediate care of the Horcruxes (Regulus knew about them!!! How could Dumbledore care about their existence only twenty years later?) .
Sorry for the rambling. It's all so messed up in canon.