[HPforGrownups] Re: Valky's confession; The Snape Hater Club

[Shylah]

No: HPFGUIDX 133752

Tanya

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guidelines.  Snippets below.


>Alexa
> 
> Either way, Dumbledore was dead. The only question, at that point,
> was whether Snape was going to go down with him, and if Snape died,
> his mission – to help Harry overthrow Voldemort – would die with him,
> leaving Harry without the help of either Dumbledore or Snape.
> Frankly, the person I was most emotionally distressed for in the last
> 100 or so pages of the book was Snape. To be in the position of
> killing the single person in the entire world who believes in you?
> I'd be howling in pain like a wounded animal, too.


Tanya

I'm not sure what to think here.  The separation seems final.  No OOTP
member will listen to Snape now.  However, he was caught.  It was a
choice of 1 or probably 3 deaths - definately 2.  Things might have
been a bit different if he had got there before the other Death
Eaters.  But I agree, Snape wasn't exactly as happy as I imagine a
Death Eater would be on killing Dumbledore.  The brother and sister
duo were panting excitedly over his death.  Imagine how euphoric they
would be if they'd sent the curse.  Something they were about to do.

I think that Dumbledore's first plan was to protect Draco, hence
keeping his distance even though he knew what was going on.  But
between talking to Draco and the arrival of Snape, things went
pearshaped.

The argument between Snape and Dumbledore is another thing that sticks
in my mind.  Snape didn't want to do it anymore, but Dumbledore played
the heavy.  The question, is that he wanted to stop doing what?  It
must have been something between Snape and Dumbledore only.


>Alexa
> 
> JKR has made the comment, who would love Snape? And it's a comment
> that's treated kind of flippantly sometimes, but it makes me
> incredibly sad. Because if love is so terribly important, as
> Dumbledore tells Harry and us that it is, then to have Snape cut off
> from any possibility of that ... it's not funny, it's cruel. It's
> doubly cruel when he's had to do it to himself.


Tanya

We also do not yet know what Snape's patronus is.  He'd have to have
one, having used it in OOTP to send messages.  If he is as evil as
this seems to paint him on the surface, why the mystery?