Defending a Snape Rant

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 34597

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Porphyria <porphyria at m...> wrote:
[other snipped defenses of Snape--good though] 

> > 9.  He is responsible for Peter's escape, and as a result,
> > Voldemort's re-birth.  Had he listened in the Shrieking Shack, 
> > there would have been an additional wizard there to keep control 
> > of the situation. 
> 
> Peter's escape *is* the result of a mistake on Snape's part; 
> although even Dumbledore admits that Snape's assessment of the 
> situation (that the children were confounded) is more convincing, 
> and that Sirius hasn't been acting like an innocent man. Snape was 
> still doing what he thought was right, however misguided. I have 
> an impish inclination to blame the others in the shack for not 
> reviving Snape (maybe binding him up, then reviving him) when they 
> should have -- it would have helped matters quite a bit.
> 
> Since there are several other factors responsible for Voldemort's 
> return, I'd say Snape bears only a small part of the blame here.
 
For instance, Snape and Lupin are mutually to blame for not making 
sure he'd taken his Wolfsbane Potion that night.  It was really 
Lupin's transformation into a werewolf that caused them all to 
scatter and made it possible for Pettigrew to escape.  (And why 
didn't Sirius, Lupin or Snape stun the little rat?)  Didn't Snape 
say he came to Lupin's office and discovered the map there, showing 
where he and the others were going?  Clearly he'd been trying to 
bring Lupin the potion, which, as a werewolf, Lupin should have been 
very concerned about.  He was putting a number of people in danger 
by not seeing to this detail.  If anything, (calling all Lupin 
lovers!) Remus Lupin is far more responsible for Pettigrew's escape 
than Snape--although he's hardly the only one.  (See again the above 
note about THREE adult wizards not stunning him.)

> OK, Snape is vulnerable, but I wouldn't call him a screw-up. He's 
> more unlucky than untalented.

Unlucky is putting it lightly, IMO...

> ~~Porphyria

(How cool that you have for your handle the disease I gave Snape in 
my fic to explain his temper and his vampire-like qualities!)

--Barb
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