Retribution for Snape the Teacher

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No: HPFGUIDX 143983

>Miles
 >Just imagine the situation:
>Harry: You killed Dumbledore!
>Snape: Dumbledore ordered me to do it! (proves it).
>Harry: Oh, I see. But you were nasty in potions!
>Snape: I'm so sorry!
>Harry: Ok, let's kill Voldemort.

>Speaking of bad literature and emotional inconsistencies of 
>characters...

>Sorry, getting a bit sarcastic, but I really cannot think of a 
>solution that
>would meet lupinlore's and my own demands on good literature.


Orna:
Trying to improvise:

Just imagine the situation: 
Harry: You killed Dumbledore!
Snape: Dumbledore ordered me to do it! (proves it).
Harry: Oh, I see. But you were nasty in potions!
Snape: But that was part of the plan. To be as horrible as could be, 
so no filthy Slytherin would ever suspect me of being DDM
/or:

Snape: Look, I just couldn't stand you, because of (something 
emotional and understandable). It was too much for me. And you are 
after all an arrogant, irresponsible cheeky line-crosser, who 
enjoyed DD's favoritism all the way long, and got all the applause 
for things I helped under great personal risk to aquire. You nearly 
killed Draco, you endangered your friends, because you "forgot" I 
was in the order and could help you in OotP, you never thanked me 
for the times I saved your life - so let's say, we are both human 
beings sometimes carried away with our emotions, (OK - me being an 
adult, being carried away in a greasier way <g>). 
Harry: Ok, let's kill Voldemort.

Personally, I think one of the things I like about JKR's writing, is 
that nobody is faultless, and I think Snape will parish with his IMO 
human faults, while enlightening the main issue – whose side is he, 
and how came he to be on it, and also the kind of person he is 
(which includes his potion behavior, but does not necessarily 
involve great retribution).  That quite satisfies my standards for 
good literature. I would be happy, if on the way, some way of true 
dialogue would happen between them. But I would find it 
disappointing, if Snape's turns out to be good or redeemed in every 
aspect of his behavior, or bad in every aspect of his behavior. 
Humans are after all complicated species, and I wouldn't like the 
books to resolve into just good and bad persons.

Orna