Snape in the Shrieking Shack (was re:time-turning)

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 112788


> > Alla:
<snip>I am interested what do we know about Snape's iron 
> > morality with "sense of FAIRNESS".
> > 
> > So far I can give you many examples of Snape being UNFAIR to 
> > children and adults around him and cannot think of one example 
> > of him being fair.

> totorivers <tombadgerlock at f...>:
>    Why didn't you talk about the morality? Snape has never shown 
> himself to have moral either...he enjoys taunting *children*,and 
> have absolutely no problem handing a man to the dementor's kiss.


Hannah: He has no problem *threatening* to hand a man to the 
dementor's kiss.  When he has the chance to do so, he doesn't. And 
the man (Sirius) had been condemned to that punishment by the law, 
for crimes he had (allegedly) committed.  Snape may not have known 
he was innocent of those crimes at this point.

>totorivers continues:
> Rowling also declared that Snape was a true DE for a time, meaning 
> that he tortured/raped children, and he probably enjoyed it (Dark 
> arts being addictice, blablabla... would explain too the refusal 
> of teaching dada). I have trouble as envisioning such a man as 
> *moral*. 

Hannah again: Not necessarily meaning that he had raped or tortured 
children, canon hasn't said he (or other DE's at the time) did 
this.  Some DE's do use 'crucio' on children after the return, 
(Harry and Neville), but I always got the impression that attacks on 
children were fairly rare in the first V war (JMO however, no 
specific canon to back it up.)  

I do agree up to a point, that DEs are very nasty and that Snape was 
certainly a nasty DE for a time, because JKR has said so.  I also 
think Snape is moral, in that he follows a personal code of 
behaviour, and seems capable of doing the 'right' thing even when he 
would *like* to do something else.  His morals may be rather 
different from those of everyone else, but if he sticks to them, 
then that still makes him a moral person (IMO).

Hannah, who is pretty rubbish at understanding all this philosophy 
stuff, and will be sobbing into her pillow tonight because she 
*wants* Snape to be nice, and *knows* he's probably not.