[HPforGrownups] Re: Did Snape have a choice or not? Was: Hermione and Snape

[Lawrence Carlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 138321

--- houyhnhnm102 <celizwh at intergate.com> wrote:

> Larry:
> 
> > Of course Snape had a choice, he could have
> ignored
> > her request, or even refused outright. What was
> the
> > downside, Bella would think poorly of him?, and
> her
> > opinion he values as highly as he values his own
> life?
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> If Snape is *not* aware of Voldemort's plan before
> the sisters came to
> his house, then what he learns at the very beginning
> of the interview
> is that there is a plot involving Draco.  A plot
> involving Draco means
> a plot against Hogwarts.  Snape may feel that he is
> justified in using
> any means necessary to obtain information, in that


Larry now:

Any means necessary; do you really mean that. Only a
predominantly evil character, a Voldemort for
instance, would resort to any means necessary. See my
post 138237, the last 3 paragraphs for a more detailed
explanation. But in brief, to use the means of the
enemy is to become the enemy. Why is the Dark Lord so
bad? Because we object to his actions, or means. But
if we use those same means, even against him, we will
become what we are fighting.And even if we are
victorious, all that will have been achieved is that a
new Dark Lord has supplanted the old. Not what we
originally had in mind, I'm sure.

Larry 

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