Snapedom

OK, this is not an attack on your theories, so do not jump on me. The problem That I have with these probable theories is that when Snape had his one chance to take them, he did not. This is when he faces McGonagal in the school hallways. I think Snape knows that Harry is close by, I think the hairs on the back of his neck were probably standing on end, but instead of surrendering to McGonagal, and he could have, he chooses to use magic to defend himself. Notice I am not saying that he is attacking her in any way, because he's not. But neither is he saying, as Remus did in the Shrieking Shack scene in POA, "Here's my wand, I cannot fight you." Now Nagini is in the magical cage by then, has been since Voldemort realised his Horcruxes are being destroyed. Snape's knows he has to get the message to Harry, and here is an opportunity to at least tell someone he knows is 100% trustworthy about it. And he runs away instead of doing that very thing. This has always bothered me. I know that you will probably say that he didn't know if Nagini was in the cage for sure, but we don't know he didn't know either. I think he did know because he had to keep in touch with Voldemort on a constant level because this was something that he had to keep tabs on. Sometimes you have to take a chance that even if things are not 100% the way you would want them. Harry goes to the Forest even though he knows that Nagini is not dead. He knows that both Ron and Hermione know she has to be killed and he takes the further opportunity to tell Neville to kill her if he goes the chance. Snape doesn't take any opportunity to speak to McGonagal and I think he should have told her to at least to get Harry to the headmaster's office so that Dumbledore's portrait could have told Harry. Oryx you make a good point about Snape's Patronus but the problem I see there is that anyone can conjure a Patronus with the Patronus Charm. Umbridge has a perfectly beautiful one. Can you really see Harry believing anything that came out of Umbridge's Patronus' mouth. The same problem exists with Snape's. The moment Harry realised that it was Snape's Patronus he would have discounted it. The Patronus is a reflection of the caster's personality and Harry did not trust Snape. Whether you believe that Harry should have trusted Snape, or as I do that Snape gave Harry no opportunity to ever trust him is beside the point. For good or ill, Harry DID not trust him and that was the reality that Snape had to deal with. My problem is that I don't see Snape making any effort to deal with it, but then it may just be my problem. Anyway, I'm going to read throught that section again and do some research and see what I come up with.