Forgiving Snape was FF: Re: Who does Snape really hate?

[mercurybluesmng]

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> Pippin:
> --From HBP:
> Slughorn raised a pudgy hand and pressed his shaking fingers to
> his mouth; he looked for a moment like an enormously overgrown
> baby. 
> "I am not proud..." he whispered through his fingers. "I am ashamed
> of what -- of what that memory shows....I think I may have done
> great damage that day..."
> "You'd cancel out anything you did by giving me the memory," 
> said Harry. "It would be a very brave and noble thing to do."
> --HBP ch 22
> 
> Slughorn contributed to the deaths of six people, all of whom
> might be alive if he hadn't told Voldemort about Horcruxes, plus
> everyone who's been killed by the renascent Voldemort.

MercuryBlue:
Did he? Voldemort had already committed three murders by the time 
that scene took place, four if we count Myrtle. Do you really think 
that if Slughorn hadn't told him about Horcruxes, he would ever have 
stopped killing people? I'll accept that Slughorn bears a degree of 
blame for every Voldemort-related murder after Oct 31 1981. But then 
Harry bears a degree of blame for every Voldemort-related murder 
after Jun 6 1994. Who's accused Harry of contributing significantly 
to their deaths?

Pippin:
> At least Snape tried to make up for what he'd done,
> even if he didn't entirely succeed -- even if he didn't manage to
> save the Potters, the information he brought back as a spy surely
> saved other lives, if you believe DDM!Snape, of course.

MercuryBlue:
My opinion is, the lives saved by Snape's spy work for Dumbledore 
don't balance out the lives taken by Snape's spy work for Voldemort, 
on account of we know of several murders tracable to information 
Snape gave Voldemort and not a single innocent life saved or Death 
Eater apprehended thanks to information Snape gave Dumbledore. If he 
tried to balance the one with the other, he did a pathetic job of it.