Redemption of Anakin and other redemption stories (moved from Main)

[dumbledore11214]

> Carol, who thinks that Snape's redemption would have been unrealistic if it involved a complete personality change like Scrooge's and is sure that he's earned peace and happiness in the afterlife, whether it's a Christian Heaven or not <SNIP of the whole post>


Alla:

Actually I do not need complete personality change at all for the redemption storyline to work for me. I acknowledge that I like the redemption storylines that Magpie was describing - Zuco does not undergo personality transplant, he just discovers what he really wants to achieve in the world and consequently changes how he views the world and people around him. His personality remains the same and at the same time it shines with new colours and he becomes a better person to be arounf with if that makes sense.

HOWEVER, I certainly do not think that those redemption storylines are the only storylines that I will call redemption.

With Snape to me it is much simpler, it is not that I do not feel that he was redeemed enough from being a DE, quite the contrary. I think he was. 

He however to me just **was not redeemed** at all from what I consider his other thing he needed to be redeemed from - his hatred of Harry, which to me at least just as important for him to be redeemed from.

I will not be arguing about whether he really hated Harry or not, my opinion on this matter is not changing. To me he hated Harry with the 
passion till the end of his life.

So, really the answer to your question in one of your other posts on this thread is very simple for me - for Snape to achieve redemption I needed to see him acknowledging that he was wrong in his hatred of innocent child. If he would have done that, I would have said that he achieved redemption.

Now, of course, if he stopped hating Harry but remained a DE I would not have considered him to achieve full redemption.

But to me his DE activities were always on the background till we knew that he sold Potters to Voldemort and artistically his redemption from that just does not give me a great emotional impact.

JMO,

Alla