Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 105244

 
> Alla:
> 
> 
> I tell you one thing. Since I love redemption in the fictional 
> characters, I can forgive him being a DE (only by value of him 
being 
> a fictional character :)), but if we will know for sure that he 
> participated in killings, I will be wanting to ask Snape 
apologists 
> why is it easier to forgive a former murderer than a former school 
> bully. Even if Sirius planned to kill Snape, which I don't think 
was 
> true, this is soo not the same.

Potioncat:
This reminds me of a Parable.  It's called the Unforgiving Servant 
and it really fits (given what we know so far)  JKR would be 
familiar with it.  In that story a master forgives his servant a 
huge debt.  That servant then goes to a lower servant and demands 
payment on a small debt, going so far as to throw the lower servant 
into jail.  But the master finds out and the unforgiving servant is 
the one who ends up in jail.  Not that JKR will follow  that plot, 
but the "human behavior" of it is consistant.

I'm of course thinking of Snape who cannot forgive Black.  And, 
speaking for Snape apologists, I understand why Snape feels Black 
was trying to kill him.  I doubt that he really was.  On the other 
hand, Black doesn't seem too sorry about it.  

And I'll decide what to think about Snape after we find out what he 
did or didn't do.  But I'm not too sure I want to think about that 
now. 

Potioncat who thinks both Snape and Black are good but not nice.