Vengeance

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51816

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants <rusalka at i...>" 
<rusalka at i...> wrote:
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> Oh, I've just remembered the most glaring case of "approved 
> vengeance" in the books: the Dueling Club scene in CoS.  It's quite 
> obvious that Snape knocks Lockhart around as payback for his 
general 
> annoyingness, and *everybody* approves (well, except Lockhart 
> himself, I suppose).  Even the assembled students, most of whom 
hate 
> Snape, seem glad to see Lockhart brought down.  It's gotta be the 
> most popular moment of Snape's teaching career.



Vengance? No! Certainly not. Comeuppance certainly but not vengance, 
not from Severus Snape.  I really can't see how you get vengance out 
of that scene. "I'll shut that twerp up once and for all." isn't 
vengance, certainly not in the mind of a Death Eater! I would think 
that Death Eaters take vengance very seriously. Knocking a blowhard  
on his backside does not seem like something a DE would consider 
worth the term. Lockart had done nothing to Snape (save annoy the 
hell out of him--but there's a long line in front of him there) and 
Snape doesn't seem the sort to take his idiocy at anything more than 
face-value.

But I'll grant you it was a whole lot of fun, the kids loved him for 
that brief and shining moment and Lockhart got the message from SS 
loud and clear: "Yes, I know what you are."


> 
> Of course, it's probably no coincidence that this display is 
> assigned to the most morally ambiguous character in the series. :-)


Ah the whipping boy. Every dog deserves his day!

Melpomene