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

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 112838

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
 
> Potioncat:
> You know all those parallel situations that we respond to 
> differently depending on who does what?  One just jumped out at me:
> 
> James threatens to pull off Severus' pants...we don't know if he 
> did or not.  Snape knows, as do Black and Lupin.
> 
> Snape threatend to hand Black over to the dementors.  We don't know 
> if he really intended to, but we do know he doesn't.

You know, I hate to post and harp on this *again*, but it's a little 
more complicated to than 'he threatened to and then he didn't', 
because of that nasty little conversation that he has with Fudge.  
You all know the one, where he's talking about DD not making 
difficulties, and how the Kiss would be administered immediately.  
This does have bearing on intention--I think he calmed down enough to 
wake up and take everyone in, but when DD does not oblige, he starts 
getting all cozy with Fudge--unless you think that Snape is faking 
that to play with Fudge's mind/Snape is actually DD's agent in all 
this/the details of MAGIC DISHWASHER.  If he is...then why get so 
furiously upset at the end?

I agree that he doesn't do it, and does the right thing, when he 
wakes up first--but I think there's definitely some malice on the 
mind *after* the kids wake up in the hospital and he sees that DD is 
having his doubts.  It's, ummm, a slightly flexible attitude towards 
morality, at times, that our dear Potions Master shows.

-Nora, not a believer in ESE!Snape by any means, but just trying to 
account for *all* the troubling aspects of behavior.