@chair-sama:
have you also considered WHY he didnt entrust them to snape? maybe because SNAPE WAS LIVING INSIDE OF HOGWARTS.
He entrusted the horcruxe to Lucius and Bellatrix long before Snape was a teacher.
let me ask you, why would he give a horcrux to snape with snape being so close to both 1. Dumbledore AND 2. to harry potter?
voldemort went to great lengths to hide his horcrux's from dumbledore, and he knew dumbledore had the Wand, why, in his right mind, would he willing let snape walk into the school filled with powerful professors, with a part of his soul?
He could have entrusted a horcrux to Snape after Dumbledore's death.
the fact remains as this, 1. he DID entrust a horcrux to snape. Snapes whole reasoning to be in hogwarts was as a double agent, and to close to Harry potter, Who happens to be a horcrux.
He didn't entrust aything to Snape, Voldemort didn't even know Harry was one.
bellatrix was trusted because he knew nobody would be able to get to her horcrux, and lucius was trusted as with his political position and his families wealth he also could not be touched. with the death eaters and voldy controlling the Ministry, the only thing that could go against either was Dumbledore himself, which he couldn't exactly go around busting down doors for one of the most prestigious families in the potter verse.
but lets face it, just like with snape, both bellatrix and lucious would be nothing faced directly by Dumbledore wielding the wand. the only difference is snape was literally right down the hall in the dungeon, while bellatrix/lucious were not.
He chose them because he trusted them more than anyone else and at the time of the first wizard war they were his right hands. It comes Pottermore on Malefoy family.
That being said the horcrux discussion was to show that Snape was a favourite of Dumbledore after Voldemort and Bellatrix failed at the DoM and he killed Dumbledore. Before that the lieutenant were Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange.
The reason he killed snape was because it was his last chance, he was against a wall and was starting to lose the battle, he knew he needed control over the wand to be able to finish it, other wise the battle was lost. he was down to two horcrux's, harry and Nagima the snake. both of which are the two most vulnerable without having mastery of the wand.
this was the whole reason Draco was supposed to kill dumbledore to begin with, Draco kills dumble--> voldemort takes the wand---> voldy then kills draco--> voldy takes control of wand.
he even states that because snape did it for draco he was the rightful master of the wand and thus he had to die. he thought he was at the end, he had no further need for snape as
1. no more dumbledore
2. no more hogwarts(if he won the battle)
3. he has the Wand
all this means he has no further use for a double agent in the school, and if it meant getting the wand i wouldnt doubt he would have killed any other death for it too, even bella.
on top of all of this there are a few things we need to consider.
I read the book, what is your point ?
bella has some better feats, but she was still topped by fodder quite a few times. \
Which "fodder" did top Bellatrix aside of Molly who was explained to have been induced with the biggest plot armor at the time which is "love".
while Molly is no slouch, bella was still countered by some teenage students. something snape was not.
Snape never fought several students at once, however he was once knocked out by three third students in PoA.
snape was effortlessly able to disarm harry, and probably would have killed him if not for his little secret. something that almost nobody else in the series (other then bella once) can attest to.
You should look at the context of the fight which was really convenient to Snape.
Snape is a prodigy, and has a list of Dark Magic spells that he himself created. now I'm not going to downplay the Unforgivables, because bella clearly pointed out to harry, they are not easy spells to control, but he have seen that they can be countered and blocked, something that snape theoretically should be able to do.
List of curses won't make him win a duel, it was already shown at numerous times that there are many others factors.
Snape is also a master of Occlumency, a potions master, a defense against the Dark Arts' teacher(meaning he also has access to all the text and research on the dark arts and the many ways to counter and defend against them)
Only the underlined is relevant.
His biggest advantage over bella imo though is his level-headedness. Bella is powerful but she is also very fanatical. she is partly insane and acts very sporadically. And while against a normal wizard or kid this is very effective, as its hard to determine her actions and predict what she will do in time tone able to react, against somebody like snape, who is a experienced wizard somebody trained in not only the Dark arts but somebody trained to defend against them, who is also known to keep a level head, it could be more of a flaw then a benefit.
Kingsley a highly experienced auror was supposed to have the great advantage over her and still got trounced really hard. Being calm isn't that much of a big factors against her, she already showed that you need more than that to defeat her.
Snape also knows more about the current bella then she knows of him, she's been sitting in azkaban for most of the series, while he's been at hogwarts, practicing possibly mastering knew spells and potions while in the dungeon.and the fact that she locks the knowledge of him is obvious by their encounter in his house. bella, especially for a former death eater, is not a surprise, she comes in fast and strong and is not afraid to blast some H.K.'s, while snape has spells that nobody outside of him/draco/and harry knows about, and that could easily catch her off guard.
Are you talking about sectumsempra ? It seems to be common knowledge on the field, Lupin knew it was Snape's signature and death eaters already saw him using it
now when it comes down to pure dueling, by Feats i agree bella has a much better showing, but thats what her whole job in the death eater spectrum seems to be, thats why she is his "lieutenant' she is the crazed wizard who is not afraid to straight up launch Killing spells willy nilly, and against an army of mostly fodder students and a few parents(most who haven't seen action since the last wizarding war) and some professors, she is the perfect one to be leading the charge, where as I've always seen snape as more of the Secret Spy for voldemort, not only is he skilled, but he's deceptive, can play it cool and keep calm(something bella could never do) enough to be a double agent. but even voldemort knows, when it comes to double agents, you need somebody that can still defend themselves when dealing with Hogwarts professors + dumbledore.
its like trying to compare G.I. Joe to Jason bourne. Both are more then capable when it comes to killing, but both have different skill sets.
if this were in a open battle field with multiple people fighting on both sides, i easily give it to bella, if this is a 1v1 duel with them alone, snape takes it easy IMO. i just feel 1v1 he has more skill to be able to manipulate the battle, he can fly, more unique spells and his use of Occlumency, and leligimency(i know i spelt that wrong but the opposite of occlumency, the ability to invade ones mind) and just being able to keep calm under pressure.
Just to be clear occlumency won't matter here as I doubt Bella is going to use legilimency on him nor she would managed actually, the same goes for Snape who wouldn't be able to use it on Bella.
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