[HPforGrownups] Snape culpable

[literature_Caro]

No: HPFGUIDX 134741

Larry:
>    It seems everyone has assumed that in refering to
>  Snape as culpable, JKR is referancing the betrayal and
>  the murder of DD. However, she could mean culpable to
>  mean Snape's treatment of Harry, Neville and the other
>  students for the previous six years. Or am I grasping
>  at straws?
 


 
Culpable could also be meant in some other way. Even if DD agreed in
Snape killing him in any communicative way nobody else knew it. So
culpable could be meant as a disappointment because he "breaks" your
trust in him. To trust somebody you must like him in some way (Sirius
neither trusted nor liked Snape) for that and (now I refer to
different discussions of HFforGrownups) to like somebody could also be
described as to love somebody in a non-sexual way. So breaking this
trust means to hurt somebody who loves you. In my opinion this is
great guilt.

Caro