"revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face"

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 135418

dan wrote:
> > I haven't read an entirely convincing, Snape-based explanation 
> > for it, is all I'm saying <snip> the revulsion and hatred needs 
> > a real explanation, not a rationalization.


Leslie41:
> Well, no explanation is going to be "entirely convincing."  If 
> Rowling wanted us to be entirely convinced, she would have seen to 
> it that we were.  She didn't.  

SSSusan:
Totally agree.  JKR is leaving this wide open on purpose, and is 
probably enjoying a big grin over all the speculating that's going 
on.

Leslie41:
> I believe Snape did not want to kill Dumbledore, dreaded doing it, 
> and regretted doing it.  But did it because it had to be done.  
<snip> 
> And ask yourself this...if you "had" to kill something you 
> loved...a beloved dog lying half-dead in the road... what look, as 
> you pulled the trigger, would be on *your* face?  
> 
> Horror.  Revulsion.  Maybe even something that looked like hate.  
> 
> But that doesn't mean you want to kill your dog.     


SSSusan:
I find Leslie's response very compelling.  Add to that another 
possibility which I posted previously in another thread, which is 
that the hatred & revulsion could be directed at DD not for any 
weakness Snape senses in him, but because DD is forcing him to 
return to a place he no longer wants to go:  his DE days of using AK 
and murdering.  

Yes, yes, I know -- no canon to support what Snape did or did not do 
as a DE!  But there is the *possibility* that Snape engaged in "the 
usual DE behavior," which might have included the occasional AK.

*If* my read of this scene is accurate, then DD IS asking Snape to 
kill him, which means he is asking Snape to return to performing an 
action which Snape he *not* want to return to, an action which now 
repulses him. 

Not sure if it works for you, Dan, but it works for me.

Siriusly Snapey Susan