[HPforGrownups] Re: The Prank on Snape

[An'nai Jiriki]

No: HPFGUIDX 114357


--- Nora Renka <nrenka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"
> 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> > Others postulate that Snape believes that only by
> rescuing him could
> > James save Lupin, Sirius and DD from a whole load
> of trouble. Only
> > by rescuing Snape could the presence of a werewolf
> in the school
> > be hushed up. And it was hushed up. No known
> punishment for Sirius
> > and Snape was told to keep his mouth shut.
> > 
*Snip*
> > 
> > That being so, why should Snape feel gratitude if
> James's thoughts
> > were centred on others?
> 
> Oh, just to be contentious:
> 
> Because Snape himself seems to follow a rather,
> ummm, object-oriented 
> morality?  In other words, at least the defense is
> often made for 
> him: 'It's not why he does it, but what he does,
> that's important'.  
> This also seems to be at least a little part of his
> current self-
> conception: 'I'm doing the right thing even though I
> may loathe it a 
> decent amount of the time, and I still don't really
> *like* most of 
> you, anyways'.  It seems fair that if one expects
> gratitude for ones 
> actions regardless of motivation (see: bended knee
> comments in the 
> Shrieking Shack), one should be polite enough to
> extend such 
> consideration unto others.
*Snip*


Mezu thinks:
I'm not 100% sure Snape did _not_ know what he was
getting into going to the Shreiking Shack.  Snape
seems too smart for that, and I just don't mean books.
By both admission, Snape followed the Marauders
around. It would be obvious to figure out Lupin was a
werewolf, as Hermione did (she was the only one
mentioned to have done the homework). If Snape did his
homework, as he must have to complete his OWLs so
dilagently, he could have figured it out. 

Then we go onto why he would willingly go to the
Shack. The books never said Snape was scared. This is
a way out idea, but Snape went to get bitten or
killed, as in a suicide. That would give credit to his
intense hatred of James for not letting him get
through. And it would be the prefect revenge for all
the pranks, getting all the Marauders expelled, thus
ruining their lives. Letting the Marauders off would
seem like a slap in the face to Snape, and almost
telling him that would have happened anyway.

This would lead to a mindset of 'If I can't get them
now, I'll get them later' and the DEs must have seemed
like angels from heaven to him. 

This could also explain his dislike of life in the
'present' time. He would be forbidden to die because
of the debt to DD.

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"You irritate me. Kill me now." ~Javert, Les Miserables


		
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