Snape, Hagrid and Animals

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 143807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at y...> wrote:

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> Leslie 
> (who loves these kinds of arguments, and who firmly believes that 
> Snape is Dumbledore's man because it would be too easy and offer no 
> lesson if he weren't)

Of course there's a lesson if he's not.  It's just not the lesson that 
much of the fandom wants Rowling to be offering.

If he's not, there's a story of someone being unable to genuinely 
renounce past actions and inclinations (the DE lifestyle), in part 
because of holding on to old grudges where they could be let go by 
opening one's awareness (Harry is not James).  It's a story of a soul 
curdled by resentment and a devotion to some value other than love.

It's only one possibility, but there's hardly 'no lesson' in something 
that's not a nice sparkling lovely DDM!Snape.

-Nora is probably a little cranky at this time in the morning, but 
notes that has no bearing on the argument