Potter & Politics - who votes what?

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 71555


 Derannimer:
> Snape doesn't vote *at all* -- he's far too cynical. (And, 
Kirstini, how can you call him "self-motivated" when he left the 
DE's? Always assuming that he isn't ESE. that is.)>

(Have to say first that it really bothers me to argue with 
Derannimer because I think her posts are great, and that's not *all* 
just because I'm a creeping little toady.)

I'll possibly agree on the first point, but I really do consider 
Snape to act, primarily, towards what would most benefit Snape. We 
still don't know why he left the DEs. And the majority of his 
actions mentioned in the texts have an almost risibly clear agenda 
behind them - saving Harry's life in PS to repay the life-debt to 
James, right down to his refusal to take anything less than O 
students where even McGonagall willl take the Es. it's one of those 
facets of his character which I feel makes him so interesting - the 
apparent dissolval of feelings and attachment s(basing arguments 
here on Occulemency scenes) against the very human instinct of self-
preservation. I'm not trying to suggest that he's any sort of 
reverse Pettigrew - it's just that as I've been trying for some time 
now to develop my own cohesive theory on the gradual slide from pre-
fabricated states of black and white morality which OoP holds up a 
massive, neon, signpost to, Snape's self-motivated 'goodness' 
appeals more and more to me. 

Kirstini, now worrying herself with nonsensical lyricism.