[HPforGrownups] Re: A thought popped in my head one night...

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112484

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
> <mgrantwich at y...> wrote: huge snip.
>> If she ever did try to befriend Snape, it was probably with the 
>> same good-intentioned obtuseness that Hermione used with Winky in 
>> GoF. And Snape probably responded with the same hostility.  No one

>> likes to be considered someone's personal crusade.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> Let me ask you a question. Would Lily's behaviour been considered 
> more acceptable if she did not come to defend Snape at all? You 
> know, let him be and saved his wounded pride.
> I don't see how it would have been better, but I am interested to 
> know what you think.

I'm confused.  I never said Lily's behaviour wasn't acceptable. 
Where did you get that idea?  Lily's behaviour did her a great deal
of credit and so did her efforts to help Snape.  That her efforts
would backfire does not in any way mitigate the good intentions
behind it.  And good intentions are praiseworthy in themselves.  But
good intentions don't always guarantee good results.

Lily, being the kind of person she was, couldn't not have jumped in
to help Snape or make James stop, take your pick.  Just as Hermione
can't not try to help the house elves.  

Perhaps a better comparison is when Hermione is trying to stop Harry
from going to the MoM and gives him all her reasonable arguments
which he ignores.  So she asks him if he has a "saving people thing".
 Hermione has shown that she sometimes has a problem with tact when
she's really wrought up over something, so it's in character for her
to be tactless here.  And it's completely in character for Harry to
lose it in response and from that moment on nothing is going to keep
him from going to the MoM.  

It's not a matter of whether Lily or Hermione was "wrong" in doing
what they did - they both did what they had to do at the time.  And
both Harry and Snape were in character with their responses.  

I don't want to overexplain things but hope this makes sense.

Magda



		
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