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

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 105319

"dumbledore11214" asks:

>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.

An excellent question.  I think the answer is:

1)  We've never seen Snape murder anyone, in a Pensieve scene or anywhere 
else; we see Sirius and James bullying in considerable and loathesome 
detail.

2)  Most of us thought much more highly of James and Sirius than we did of 
Snape (I almost wrote "all of us," but I forgot about the "Sirius is 
responsible for world hunger, AIDs, and the Iraqi war" crowd).

3)  So far as I know, no one on this list has been murdered, but apparently 
many of them have been bullied.


Janet Anderson

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