Javert/Snape parallels

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 16280

--- lea.macleod at gmx.net wrote:
> I think the life-saving-and-being-indebted-to-
> your-worst-enemy-parallel
> between 
> Javert and Snape is so obvious that it has lead us
> to parallel their 
> characters and cases entirely. We shouldnt do that.
> The parallel ends 
> here.

Hrm.  Well, I agree to a certain extent, but I do see
parallels in them stil.  I don't think Snape has
"gotten over" or worked through the issues raised by
his debt to James.  In many ways, he's simply shut off
his brain to that portion, until of course he was
confronted head on with Harry, who we've always heard
looks extraordinarily like James.  

True, Snape definitely handles this differently from
Javert, in that he makes an effort to repay the debt
(saving Harry from Quirrel) rather than avoidance
through suicide.  But I do see Snape as still having a
very difficult time struggling with his world view.

Oh, I just had an interesting thought.  Snape became a
Death Eater and then later turned back to the Light
<g> and began working as a sort of double-agent.  What
if his initial turn to working for Voldemort was as a
way to put his world-view back in order after James
screwed around with it?  

I...had another point here, but I've completely
forgotten it. <sigh> Ah well.  Will come up later if
it's important. <g>



Andrea II

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