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

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No: HPFGUIDX 112841


Nora: 
> 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.

Potioncat:
I couldn't decide where to snip, so I didn't...

Erm, it would be so much easier to stand up for Snape if he wouldn't 
go off on one of his fits every now and then.  Yeah, I can't explain 
the Hospital scene either.  I don't think he was acting, unless he 
was just keeping an eye on Fudge.  But if that was the case, why did 
he have the fit?

I wish we knew what he would  have done if he hadn't been 
expelliarmused into a coma.  Would he have taken Lupin and Black 
back to the castle taunting them the entire way?  But that is 
particularly evil if he expects all along that the two will be given 
to the Dementors for the kiss.  Of course, IMHO, he does really 
think they were guilty.

Just for fun, I'll go out on a limb here and recommend a fanfic by 
one of our own, Severely Sigune.  Take a look at her slant in "The 
Tunnel".
http://www.thedarkarts.org/authors/sigune/T.html

In the meantime, I'll look over GoF again...It's a dirty job but 
someone has to do it. 
Potioncat