[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 105318

Melanie says:

>Melanie:
>Well, I think the thing is that we're so ready to forgive Snape
>being a former DE that we haven't stopped to think what being a DE
>really means.

*snip*

>For Snape to really have been a DE means that we have to come to
>grips with the fact that he probably witnessed rape, torture, and
>murder and did nothing to stop it, at the very least. And if he did
>participate in the festivities (and let's be honest, you probably
>had to kill kittens and burn down orphanages to even be a DE
>candidate), chances are that when he was casting Unforgivables
>around, *he meant it.*

*further snippage*

Oh, yes.  I suspect Snape has done some really awful things.  I also think 
he has memories that would curl the hair on a billiard ball -- and that the 
ones Harry saw aren't the worst; they are the ones he specifically didn't 
want Harry to see.

I think Snape's past use of the Dark Arts, including Unforgivable Curses, 
may be the reason why Dumbledore does not give him the position of DADA 
teacher, for which he's obviously qualified.   And I think Dumbledore 
probably knows about the things Snape has done in the past -- what he was 
like before -- and therefore accepts even the miserable being he is now as 
an improvement over what Snape used to be.

Of course, all this is speculation.


Janet Anderson

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