Two scenes for most everyone (was Re: Retribution for Snape the Teacher)

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 144041

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:

> Absolutely and completely.  To allow Snape to go unpunished for 
> his 
> child abuse (and it IS child abuse) would be reprehensible beyond 
> belief.  

If it is, it's an "abuse" that Dumbledore himself has never 
obviously sought to remedy.  In fact Snape is promoted and DD takes 
him even further into his trust.  The "fiasco" of the occlumency 
lessons, and Snape's overall classroom demeanor, are not something 
that trouble Dumbledore, any more than Hagrid's performance does.

Dumbledore, it seems to me, is the only person with enough authority 
over Snape to humiliate him, or even persuade him.  We saw what 
Snape did to Bellatrix.  Cut her up into tiny little ribbons.    
  
> However, I don't think it's necessarily true that this 
> cannot be done in a manner that does not satisfy most everyone on 
> all sides without taking an undue amount of time.  I offer two 
> scenes that would do the trick.
 
Scene One, or anything like it, would never happen. It's not that I 
can't see Snape apologizing, or coming to some sort of understanding 
with Harry, or of his own behavior.  I simply cannot see Snape 
allowing himself to be dressed down and forced to apologize by 
someone else.  It would not happen.    

Simply because that's not Snape.   

Scene Two is not faithful to either Snape OR Minerva.  It would mean 
that we would have to all of a sudden acecpt that Minerva, deputy 
headmistress of the school and DD's confidante, has actually 
disapproved mightily of Snape's teaching methods all along.  
Disapproved of them enough to toss him out of Hogwarts.

This is not in keeping with canon, or the relationship between Snape 
and Minerva as it exists in the books. If she loathed him that 
mightily we would have found out about it by now.  It would be a 
sucker punch out of the blue, as much a sucker punch as Hermione all 
of a sudden deciding to go out with Draco.    

> I think either would satisfy almost everyone.  They are short and 
> to the point, fitting into the flow of the final book as Miles and 
> Steve desire.  They provide karmic retribution and third party 
> intervention as Nora, Alla, and I desire.  And they even allow for 
> a DDM!Snape. The last even allows for Snape to survive the final 
> book.

It does indeed allow for all those things.  It just doesn't allow 
them in a manner that provides a believable Snape.    

Which I myself would find VERY unsatisfying.

Leslie