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

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 122698


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> > 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. 

Renee:
Snape apparently doesn't trust DD's judgement concerning others, 
though it's DD's judgement of him that kept him out of trouble after 
the first Voldemort war. He's only too eager to think the worst of 
others, even though DD apparently never thought the worst of him.   


> 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...
> 
Renee:
That one's also applicable to Snape, yes. 

But you omit that Sirius and Lupin ultimately listened to Harry, 
while Snape wasn't only completely unwilling to do so, but also 
belittled Harry (and James Potter again, but I'm willing to cut him 
some slack there.)