by Amythest » Wednesday 10 August 2005 9:05:15pm
Personally, I'm seeing the whole "spinners end" to mean that the spinner has reached the end of his thread. Id est (latin, anyone?...IE), over the past 16 plus years Snape has been spinning a delicatley woven veil of lies and deciet that he wears for everyone. Part of the reason he is able to do this so well is because there are very few people to whom he has to respond to. He only tolerates DD interogating him, and that hasn't happened for years. The infrequent refresher-loyalty-questions allow snape a good deal of time to decide how he would like to constrew the informaiton to his best liking, as well as what would be most reasonable.
~Remember, in PoA, he immediatly creates this fantastical account of the might in which he is the clear and utmost hero (despite H,H, R and S being eyewitness accounts to an entirely different story)...a story he would be hard pressed to repeat once the addreneline calms down. This shows that he has a flair for story telling and an ambition for glory...more on that later.~
The story he tells to voldermont could be an entirely different one for all we know, it seems that the death eaters dont conspire amoungst themselves and voldermont doesn't seem like one to swap stories over a vat of butter beer. Even better, there is no one else playing both sides, so who's to catch him on inconsistancies?
However, the foul fiend is foiled when fate comes knocking at his door in the form of two death eaters...and no offense, but if any DE seems likely to gossip, high class women do fall into a slightly more likely category. Worse, both women have connections to the Order, with Bella's potential house being the HQ...in the wizarding world, walls (pictures) can talk.
So he must give them his tale, and he must convince them of his loyalty to vold. He does this quite well, and would have carried on just fine except that narcissa really diddnt give a damn about all that, she just wanted to protect her son. Snape is truly cornered and to give an appropriate performance, he must consent to the unbreakable vow.
****As for sides, I kinda feel that for snape there is no right or wrong, he just wants to win, so he set himself up for the double spy thing so that he would be valuable and powerful to both sides. FOr him, the ends of winning justily whatever means it takes, which is why he can lay both sides so well.
....as for that thing that may have made DD trust him...i cant help but wonder if volde overstepped his boundries when trying to get snape in the begining and created a major reason for vengence...say, death of the wife that never could be? would explain why he is all sulky, bitter, and alone all the time.
Making Frank Fenton furious?