Snape experiencing love (was: Why he is still alive?)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 110376

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aboutthe1910s" <> As far as 
compassion, 
I strongly disagree that we haven't seen Snape
> show any--admittedly his most compassionate moments may have had
> *other* motivations, but that doesn't mean that compassion was
> absolutely *not* a motive--for example, in PS, Snape's counter-curse
> to keep Harry from falling off of his broom has been brushed off as
> just having been done so Snape could even himself with James for
> saving his life and no longer be indebted in anyway, and while I'm
> sure that he was conscious of this, I really believe that there was 
at
> least some tiny spark of compassion somewhere deep down inside.  And
> there is the way he reacts to the trio in PoA when they say that
> Sirius is innocent--he may not be kind or warm, but there's 
something
> about the way he believes that they have been confunded that has
> always struck me as--I don't know exactly, it's just somehow always
> given me the impression that he sort of meant well in regards to 
that
> whole situation...
> 



Alla:

Oh, Snape and compassion. :o) I don't know about PS/SS, certainly 
have no clue what was going on in Snape's head. I sincerely hope that 
he had at least some compassion for Harry, BUT I strongly disagree 
that when he said that kids were confunded he was being ...eh, 
compassionate.

Frankly, that was one of my "let's slap Snape " PoA moments. I always 
got an impression that Snape was lying through his teeth when he said 
that Trio was confunded that he was doing it for one purpose and for 
one purpose only - to incriminate Sirius even more.

If we were to talk about Snape and compassion in PoA, I would 
probably choose the moment, when he screams at Harry that he is just 
as his father. I always thought that even though Snape was saying 
despicable things, he did not want James to die and that he did not 
want Harry to die either.