Snape and Lupin's Character Arcs (was: Lupin's Char Arc)

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No: HPFGUIDX 119472


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> Yeah, he's a jerk all right. But that's not a crime. It's bad karma,
> if you believe in that, <SNIP>

Well, bad karma is a crime in a very real sense -- a crime against 
moral law.  But we are just quibbling over terms.

I agree that Snape has accumulated a load of bad karma, and I'm 
anxious to see it discharged.  One way is for him to do something 
spectacularly good (something he has already done just doesn't cut 
the mustard in a literary sense).  The other is for him to suffer the 
effects in a "karmic payback" to use Alla's phrase.  Public 
humliliation and ridicule would be most appropriate, but there are 
also other apt punishments.

Personally, as I have said before, I don't think Snape has it in him 
to do something good enough to discharge the "bad karma" he's 
accumulated through his cruelty to Harry.  Therefore I tend to think 
he will die in the end.

And I'll just have to disagree with you on the insipidity issue.  
It's purely my opinion of course, but I do think leaving Snape 
unpunished for his cruelty in some sort of "well, I didn't realize 
you were risking/doing so much so I see you in a different light" 
ending would be the height of insipid conclusions.

Lupinlore