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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 144900

> 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?

Pippin:
I don't think she's *promoting* it any more than she's promoting 
a belief in magic. It's just the way her world works.

If magic worked, it might be nice because you could make wonderful
things happen, but it could also be very terrible because people
could use it to do awful things to one another. 

In the same way, if the world was ruled by this tit-for-tat kind
of justice, you could be sure that everyone who did wrong would
suffer in some way, and if they happened to die before their 
account was paid, it would land on their children and their children's
children. Society as a whole would pay for the abuses it tolerates.
It would be gratifying in some ways, but painful in others.

Didn't Hermione set Snape  on fire? Rob his office? Doesn't
Neville's carelessness injure his fellow students and disrupt 
the class? You betcha.  Did they *deserve* what
they got? Cosmic retribution doesn't care. They did it, so they
pay. Too bad if  they're  nice people otherwise. JKR may 
enjoy it more when she gets to punish a character she doesn't
like. But they're not the only ones who get punished.

I agree that Snape's fate will be in Harry's hands at some point.
It will be interesting to see what he does with it.

Pippin