Snape the Iconoclast

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 78631

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Melody" <Malady579 at h...> 
wrote:

> 
> I really wonder how and why Snape shifted between.  I agree with
> Abigail's and Pip's ideas, that the prank caused a rift between 
Snape
> and his ideals.  Snape seems to respect life, at least now, so I
> wonder if Voldemort pushed him too far.  I wonder if saying he 
needs
> to kill his dad was the last straw, and Snape, as much as he did 
hate
> him, could not do it.  Or I wonder if Voldemort pushed him to do 
it,
> and he did, then felt so bad that he fled.  He knew finally he had
> gone too far and that this was wrong.  This was the line.  Things 
like
> that change everything.  
> 
> 
> Pip:
> > You can get very angry in that sort of situation. Angry enough 
to 
> > want to change the world that did this to you.
> 
> Or angry enough to kill your father.  And have that be the goal all
> your childhood, but when the wand is in your hand and pointing at 
the
> thing you hate the most.  He balked.  
> 
> He balked like Harry did.
> 
> 
> Melody




You know, I'm startin to think that the reason that Dumbledore 
trusts Snape goes like this: Snape made a choice that Dumbledore 
himself recognizes that if he were put in the same situation, he 
wouldn't make the same choice.
    Snape is ordered to kill his father, but chooses not to and 
tries to protect him. Simple as that. By now Dumbledore, through the 
use of legimency (sp), has seen how horrid Snape's childhood was and 
is finally beginning to empathize with Severus, maybe a certainly 
intense episode leaves DD shaken and angered at himself (but I'm 
being v.v.v.v hopeful). When DD finds out about Snape's task 
(through another spy, Severus couldn't have been the only one, just 
one of the better ones) and indirectly, Snape's choice (Snape Sr. is 
still walking around), I think he is a little gobsmacked and re-
evaluates what he thought of Severus.

I leave you with this quote from Chapter 23 of OOTP

"A sallow-skinned, mournful-looking wizard lay in the bed opposite 
staring at the ceiling; he was mumbling to himself and seemed quite 
unaware of anything around him. "


or, maybe not. Snape maybe prevented DD from making a mistake that 
he knows that he would have regretted to this day ( Not like those 
are in short supply though  ; -)

-SophineClaire