**I'm finally getting a post up! I hope that there's still someone here to read it!**Ok, so I recently started to reread HBP and I was on chapter two, Spinner's End, reading about Snape and his conversation with Bellatrix and Narcissa. I was thinking about how early in the book this is all revealed to us. Isn't it usually that such large revelations as the true loyalties of a rather large, primary character are reserved for the end of the book? Now I know that JKR isn't just your average author and that this might be nothing more than a part of her plan for the whole book, but I think that maybe she revealed this to us so early because it's simply not true and it's there to throw us off the correct path. Think about it. There are a lot of people who have always questioned whether or not Snape was good or evil. This seemed like a rather simple, fast way to answer all those burning questions. It's almost too simple, too easy, and too fast.
Although Snape's evil tendencies are supposedly "confirmed" when at the end with the situation with Dumbledore, I don't think this necessarily proves anything. There've already been theories on this site that attempt to explain the possible reasons for his motives there, so I won't go into that, but this could also be another red herring in trying to decide who Snape is really siding with. It did say, " 'And, should it prove necessary... if it seems Draco will fail...' whispered Narcissa (
Snape's hand twitched within hers, but he did not draw away), 'will you carry out the deed that the Dark Lord has ordered Draco to perform?' (HBP, American Edition p.36)" So, it seems that if Snape's hand twitched he was, at least mentally, hesitant. He might have known that he couldn't refuse, but he could have been thinking it.
All this theory is really trying to address are the movtives JKR had behind telling the readers so much pertinent information about Snape so early in the book. I feel that since it was done so early and so quickly, it's not a revelation to be trusted. Any thoughts?
