[ SECRET POST #2329 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2329 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[perverse_idyll]

Thanks for the welcome! :)

Considering the gravity of the crime, the punishment Snape assigns the would-be sword-snatchers is suspiciously superficial (heh - say that five times fast), and it plants a clue directly under the reader's nose. Presumably Snape couldn't always shield the students - not to mention he's got plenty of other problems on his plate - but he's also rather passive about allowing the DAs to wreak what little havoc they can. The risk he takes in sending Neville, Ginny, and Luna off with Hagrid is that one of them (not Hagrid) might start to wonder about this weird leniency and watch for other signs that the headmaster's not quite what he seems.

Actually, the fact that Snape knows who the members of the Order are and yet leaves McGonagall and Flitwick unharmed is another big honkin' clue for the reader that the characters fail to take into account. Neither of these clues necessarily has any bearing on Snape's opinion of the horrible things he does or is forced to condone, but I do enjoy stories that examine his private reasons and his coping mechanisms during that final year.

Sorry! I can go on for paragraphs about this character if I don't watch myself, so I'd better stop here.

[seventh_seal]

"leaves McGonagall and Flitwick unharmed is another big honkin' clue for the reader"

It should also be a big honkin' clue for McGonagall. It really boggles my mind what the woman was thinking - all throughout DH (sending kids into the Forest is her trademark) and at the end of HBP, too. She started the books as Dumbledore's right hand and Snape's friendly rival and, well. I like DH fics that fix this because it needs it.

[perverse_idyll]

Yes, exactly. I think JKR skims over this because she needs to draw our attention away from the fact that none of the Order members bothers to ask, "Hey, why hasn't Snape smashed our organization to pieces? Or turned McGonagall over to Voldemort?" Minerva was Dumbledore's deputy, she'd known him for longer than Snape had been alive, she must have put up with years of being party to his schemes, and it never once occurred to her that Snape was acting on Dumbledore's orders? She's not stupid, so that big a lapse always requires a bit of suspended disbelief. Or, as you say, a fix-it fic.