Snape as DE (was: James, a paragon of virtue? Was: Why Do You Like Sirius?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 123689


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> So, my theory (though not clearly backed by canon, I will admit) 
is that one of the reasons this particular memory has such emotional 
> resonance with Snape is because he had been considering becoming a 
> Death Eater, and this incident pushed him over the edge.
> 
> James and Sirius weren't *the* reason Snape became a Death Eater, 
but they were a factor.  They were the other side, and they 
certainly made it clear that Snape would never be one of them.  If 
the Mauraders had behaved differently, would Snape have not taken 
the path he did?  I hope it wasn't that simple.  I think Snape is 
too deep a thinker to be so easily influenced.  But their behavior 
was a factor, and one that Snape remembers.  (Though I don't think 
Snape blames them for his choices.  I don't see any canon that 
supports that idea.)
> 
> Betsy

Valky:
Well, Besty, It's very thin... for that reason I like it. The fact 
that it doesn't mess itself with unseriated outcries of James' & 
Sirius' intentions and blame means I am naturally inclined to *not* 
shoot canonballs at it. ;D 

Although it's only thinly possible,IMHO I do agree fairly much with 
the shade of Snape's greyness in it. However, I really hope it 
doesn't become the full story in canon, mainly because of the 
inability of it to clear up anything about the black streak in 
James. I am kind of hoping, since my own ship is sailing in that 
cove, that the final insight into Snape *will* be part of the 
balancing into whole colour the greyness of James.