Snape saving Harry (was: Re: An odd musing about Harry's attitude - )

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

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Finwitch wrote:
<< And besides, I find it questionable whether Snape *did* save Harry's life 
in the first place. Hermione broke both Quirrell's and Snape's eye-contact 
with the fire-spell, thus 
putting an END to the jinxes. If anyone saved Harry's life, it was Hermione 
far more than Snape with his uneffective counter-jinxes. >>

eloise_herisson wrote:
<<Snape's counter-curses weren't ineffective - they were what kept 
Harry on his broom. It was certainly Hermione's unintentional 
breaking of Quirrel's eye-contact that finally put an end to the 
jinx, but if Snape *hadn't* done what he did, I think we can be 
certain that Harry *would* have fallen - and probably from a great 
height.>>

Now me:

Who dares call my Severus uneffective??  Or ineffective even?? ;)  LOL.  I 
must agree with Eloise and take up for Snape here.  He could have just sat by 
and let Harry fend for himself, but he actively saved him from falling with 
the countercurse.  Quirrel might have even been channeling You-Know-Who's 
power and Snape was still matching him countercurse for curse!  Sure Quirrel 
claimed later that he would have won the battle against Snape if he had a few 
more seconds, but how reliable is Quirrel's word?  Bottom line is Quirrelmort 
wanted Harry dead, and Snape was actively trying to stop him, therefore he 
was trying to save Harry's life.  The fact that Hermione inadvertently broke 
both their eye contact only means we don't know who would have won out at the 
end.  But either way, Snape was *not* ineffective.
-Audra-
    
    



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