Favorite Snape Scenes - He's such a lovely professor, no really.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 122663


> Renee:
> I'm suddenly reminded of the New Testament parable of the 
ungrateful  servant, whose huge debt is canceled by his master 
but who throws  the man who owns him a small amount into 
prison when this man can't  pay it back. Snape, a former 
Death-eater, saved from Azkaban by  Dumbledore, wants to 
deliver Lupin (whose personal debt to him is  relatively small 
compared to the crimes committed by the average  Death-eater) 
to the Dementors, possibly to be Kissed. In the  parable, the 
ungrateful servant's fate is not happy. For Snape's  sake, I really 
do hope the analogy isn't intentional.<

Pippin:

I think the analogy is intentional, and is supposed to enhance 
our idea of Snape as an ungrateful wretch who wants to have 
Lupin Kissed for taunting him with Neville's boggart, or for having 
taken part in a cruel joke some twenty years before. 

But Snape believes that Lupin has been helping Black get into 
the castle, ie that he is a Death Eater. "I've told the headmaster 
again and again that you're helping your old friend Black into the 
castle, Lupin, and here's the proof." You have to admit, the fact 
that Snape found the map activated on Lupin's desk after Lupin 
claimed that it was a Zonko's product has got to look pretty 
damning in Snape's eyes. 

On that basis the threat of dementors doesn't seem so 
outrageous. Plenty of people think that killing DE's on sight is the 
right thing to do. Sirius and Lupin, for example, who also have to 
be stopped by Harry from killing the  man they believe is guilty.

I think ultimately the NT reference is to another passage...let him 
who is without sin...

Pippin