Snape's DE past

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 111578


> Potioncat:
> Serius Black is dead because of a lot of things that happened.  Even 
> if everything had gone as it did, if Black had not taunted Bella he 
> might not be dead.  If Black had followed intructions and waited to 
> give DD the report, he might not be dead..both because he wouldn't 
> have been there and because DD would have gotten there sooner.  If 
> DD had not left Hogwarts in the first place, neither Hagrid nor 
> McGonagall would have been injured and Harry would have been better 
> protected...
> 
> I don't see the value in choosing one person to blame.  Or by saying 
> if this one thing, and this one thing only, had been different...
> 
> Potioncat

I agree. There's never much point in saying "If only I had done this..."
or "If only he hadn't done that..." etc. It won't change anything. In the
end, I don't think anyone bears any real blame for Sirius's death. It
was a comibination of a lot of individual choices colliding into one fateful 
moment. And the real reason he died is because someone--only one
person--chose to kill him. Bellatrix.

I do think Harry blames Snape because he wants/needs someone
to blame, and of everyone involved, Snape is the one he already
greatly disliked. Harry needs a target for his grief and rage, someone
besides the person he truly blames deep down--himself. In the end,
he will have to come to grips with the fact that neither he nor Snape
caused Sirius's death. And I just hope it doesn't take all of book 6!

Julie 


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