[HPforGrownups] Re: HBP: Why I am 98.6% certain that...

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 133070



>Sherry wrote: 
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>>>I didn't buy Snape returned to the good side over his remorse
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>>>the death of the Potters either.
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>aikiva now:
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>I'd just like to point out that Snape doesn't need to have affinity
>towards the Potters even 
>though he is on the 'good' side. Frankly, he has had a rough life
>growing up in Hogwarts 
>taunted by his fellow classmates. There's no reason for him to stop
>hating the Potters 
>despite having been saved by James under various circumstances.
>Actually, according to 
>Dumbledore, it's because of these events that caused Snape to feel
>indebted to the Potters, 
>leading to his increased hatred for them.
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>The hatred on Snape's face--I took it to mean the hate Snape has at
>the moment for 
>Voldemort and not Dumbledore. Or--it might be the hatred he has for
>himself, because he 
>has no other way out of this predicament.
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OK I think this is my third post for today :) So I'm going to shut up now.

I didn't buy the reason AD gave for Snape changing sides either. It 
didn't seem at all in character for Snape - I would have expected his 
reation to be more along the lines of 'wow, didn't know that was going 
to be the consequence of handing the information over, but fantastic, I 
knew something had to go right for me!" <grin> Followed by a victory 
dance, possibly on their graves. I came to the conclusion that one fo 
three things happened 1- Severus lied to albus about his reasons (can't 
think why though), 2 - Albus is lying to Harry to try and get him not to 
hate Severus (lost cause) or 3 - JKR hasn't thought this out as well as 
I would have expected ....

And as for the hatred on Snape's face I think it was hatred for Albus 
(which would help him cast the AK although after earlier comments about 
how AD's body looked I'm wondering it it was AK that killed him). If 
someone I admired/respected/quite possibly cared for was forcing me to 
go through with a promise I had made (both the Vow and I suspect Albus 
wrung a promise out of Severus similar to the one Harry amde about 
following his orders no matter what) and kill them I suspect I would 
probably hate them for it.

K