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

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No: HPFGUIDX 112874

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "totorivers" 
<tombadgerlock at f...> wrote:
>>  Chuckle... Snape *helping* Harry out in the Quidditch match is, 
in my opinion, 
> some sort of vengeance to James, saying that *he*, an enemy, saved 
him. 
> That he is better than his old enemies, and so on. It is, in my 
opinion, an 
> occasion where Snape fulfill one of his fantaisies....
> 


Alla:

Ummmm, who cares, actually why Snape saved Harry? 
 
Take Harry's character for example.
 I will always be of opinion that  Harry's "saving people thing" 
(Boy, did I want to slap Hermione when she said that :o)) is one of 
the best character qualities I want to see in person, even if it is 
done for "wrong " reasons. Do "wrong " reasons for wanting  to help 
the people around you even exist?

But even if you argue that Harry wants to help people around him 
because he wants fame, some kind of proving himself to the world ( 
not that I really believe it), does it really matter? People, whom 
he helps benfit from it.

Same thing with Snape, IMO. He may have saved Harry only because he 
did not want to be in James' debt anymore (I actually HOPE that this 
was the reason, because that how I see Snape's character)
He may have saved Harry simply because he would have done it for ANY 
student. The fact that he did it for the son of his school enemy 
only makes him look better, don't you think?

No matter what Snape's reasons were, he still SAVED Harry and that 
is a good thing, me thinks.

Unless, of course you will argue that Snape saved Harry in order to 
betray him to Voldemort several years later  and BACK IT UP, then of 
course his act become quite despicable one.

Somehow I doubt that you can back it up my last scenario. I know I 
can't, because it is pretty outlandish SPECULATION. :o)