Apologizing to Snape?

vmonte vmonte at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 30 14:01:42 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 139105

Fitz wrote:
If we put Snape in the example, he would be the bartender who provided
the alcohol to the drunk driver, without knowing that he would drive a
vehicle aftewards, or the construction worker who built the bridge
according to the instruction of the engineer. Was he partly
responsible for the death of Lily and James? Perhaps. Was he the main
culprit your post seems to suggest? I think not.

vmonte responds:
I see what you are trying to say here but your analogy is not exactly 
right. Snape knew that Voldemort was going to target someone. So, even 
if we give him the benefit of the doubt here, he would still be 
responsible for the death of some family somewhere. Since Snape was a 
DE he may even have possibly known which families had thwarted 
Voldemort 3 times. I'm guessing that's a pretty short list that 
includes Neville and Harry's parents. 

Vivian






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