Narcissistic!Snape (was: Whither Snape?) [long!]

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 127427


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...>
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Some of that sounds eerily like Snape and some of it doesn't. 
> > I  don't think Snape was created with one hand on the keyboard and
> > the other in an abnormal psychology text book.
> 
> I certainly agree witht that.  However, I wouldn't be too sure that 
> JKR doesn't have some pretty specific mental/spiritual faults in
mind  when she crafted Snape.
> 
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> Lupinlore, who is looking forward eagerly to seeing Snape get his 
> much-deserved, and hopefully extremely painful, karmic payback.

Pippin:
You want to see someone punished for mental/spiritual faults?? *Moral*
faults are another matter. In so far as Snape chooses what is easy
over what is right, he deserves (IMO) retribution, as a reminder that
the wrong path is never easier in the long run. In so far as Snape
can't distinguish the right path, however, I don't think he deserves
to be punished for not choosing it. 

For example, if Snape has some sort of mental defect that keeps him
from changing his mind easily, then IMO, he shoudn't be blamed for not
changing it as quickly as one might expect.

That could answer the riddle of how he managed to get in so deep with
the Death Eaters, if he was the sort to be morally disgusted by what
they were doing. If  he, like Regulus, joined the DE's not knowing
what they really were capable of, it might take him a much longer time
than Regulus to react to the information once he found out, long
enough to convince Voldemort that Snape could be trusted with
inside information.

Pippin