A blood bond between Snape and Dumbledore? (was Re: Snape a relative?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 144895

> Pippin:
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> I don't think we have to get all Star Wars-y for Dumbledore to feel
> guilty about Snape. Snape was injured, "wounded" is the word
> Dumbledore uses, on Dumbledore's watch, and Dumbledore did
> not see. And Dumbledore's cosmic punishment is to watch as 
> Harry is mistreated and know that there is nothing he can do about
> it.
> 
> Tough on Harry, but that's the trouble with cosmic punishment in 
> JKR's world. It falls on the sons for the sins of their fathers 
whether
> the sons are guilty or not. "Kreacher is what he has been made by 
> wizards." "We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for 
> too long, and we are now reaping our reward."

Alla:

Hmmmm, I don't buy your interpretation that JKR promotes "let's make 
sons suffer for the sins of their fathers", in fact to me it is 
quite clear that she dissapproves of it and portrays Snape 
committing very bad things towards Harry, but let's assume that I 
buy it for the sake of argument - could you tell me how Longbottoms 
mistreated Snape that he treats their son so badly, oh and I also 
would like to know what Grangers ever did to Snape to treat their 
daughter as he does?

My idea of karmic justice is that person gets their dues for who 
THEY are, not for who their parents were. IMO of course.


Pippin
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>> Whatever Snape's fate is, it will turn on the application of that
> power, or Harry will fail.


Alla:

We'll just have to wait and see, I guess. :-) I don't see direct 
correlation between Harry's success and whatever he does about 
Snape, but there is something I want to predict about it (I could be 
wrong of course) - next time when they meet,  there will be some 
kind of power reversal and whatever Harry will do , he will have an 
upper hand in their interaction, so to speak. THAT is something I am 
looking forward to. I don't know whether he will be giving Snape 
absolution of his sins, or saving him from direct threat or 
something like that, but it will be up to Harry, totally up to 
Harry. I should mark it as a prediction for book 7. :-)

I also think that it is possible that after that interaction 
whenever it will happen, they will meet at the end for the second 
time, again don't ask me about circumstances, and IF Snape had seen 
the light by that time, he may repay the favor, sort of - by dying 
for Harry or something like that.

JMO,

Alla