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

[juli17 at aol.com]

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> Potioncat:
> Consider the time too. Snape taunted Black in  December. The Battle 
> happened in June. Big gap. In HBP Snape takes some  claim to aiding 
in 
> Black's death. How about this possibility for  DDM!Snape. LV plans to 
> hurt someone Harry loves to lure Harry into a  trap. He asks Snape 
for 
> a name of the person Harry loves most.  Snape wouldn't want to give 
> him Ron or Hermione, so he gives him the  name of an Order member. A 
> grown up: Sirius Black. Therefore, he helped  capture Black.
> 
 
La Gatta:
And also gets rid of a deeply hated personal enemy. I can't  imagine 
Snape was comfortable sharing the Order of the Phoenix with Sirius,  
even if you disallow my personal subtext. And Dumbledore certainly  
rubbed Snape's nose in the fact that he was going to have to do so. (I  
really do think, considering that he was sending Snape off on a  
potentially fatal mission, that Dumbledore might have spared Snape  
having to shake hands with the guy.)

Julie:
Snape may have told LV that Sirius was important to Harry, but that
only led to both Sirius and Harry's presence at the DoM, each there
out of fear for the other. Sirius *didn't* have to die there. His  death
couldn't even be assumed likely by Snape or anyone else, when we
consider all the others at the Ministry managed to survive. Sirius 
didn't die because he was *there* with everyone else, but because
he took Bellatrix so lightly. 
 
It is easy to see why Harry would blame himself, as several people
had some hand in getting Sirius to the Ministry, including Harry, 
Dumbledore and Snape. (Though none so much as Voldemort, of
course.) And it's easy to see why he would transfer that blame to
Snape, a man he greatly dislikes, when he's already suffering so 
much from his loss that self-recriminations aren't something he can
handle at the moment. Nor is Harry ready to acknowledge that 
Sirius's own recklessness played a far greater role in his death
than anything he, or Snape, did or didn't do.
 
It's also easy to see Snape taking his very small part (if taunting
a man he's traded insults with since childhood even contributed to
Sirius's impetuous actions) and enlarging it to convince Bellatrix
of his loyalty to Voldemort. And fortunately, Bellatrix is stupid. 
Voldemort is less so, I suspect, which will one day come back
to bite Snape right in the--but that's another subject!
 
Julie 






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