All of a Piece (was re: The Possibilities of Grey Snape)

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 143079

Lupinlore:
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>After all, 
> from what does all this issue of trust and power arise, if not Snape 
> and his daily attitudes toward Harry?  That is the root of much of 
> the tragedy that has befallen the side of light recently.  Sirius' 
> death, Harry's failure to master occlumency, the absolute meltdown 
> at the end of HBP, all spring in part or in whole from Snape's 
> interactions with Harry. And as I say, if Snape isn't punished for 
> the way he's abused Harry, then JKR is a very poor writer indeed 
> with no idea of how to craft a well-written and satisfactory story.

Montavilla: 
I really don't see how Sirius's death can be traced to any interaction between Harry and 
Snape unless you mean Harry not going to Snape with his vision about Sirius (which is 
more of a non-interaction than an interaction).

Lupinlore:
> I don't doubt there are a lot of other factors to be weighed, and a 
> lot of things Snape has to answer for.  But I deny that they can be 
> separated out into "Well, we can punish Snape for the Potters but 
> not for hating Harry," or "We can punish Snape for Dumbledore but 
> not his teaching methods."  These factors are so deeply interrelated 
> that it is impossible to weigh and judge one without weighing and 
> judging them all.  And if, as Alla particularly likes to theorize -- 
> and I think theorize well --  the type of punishment likely to be 
> manifest in the end is that of karmic retribution and poetic 
> justice, then it is almost inevitable that it will be determined by 
> Snape's entire gestalt of interactions and personality, including 
> fairly obviously his daily attitudes and actions and, yes, teaching 
> methods.

Montavilla:

Suddenly, I have a vision of Snape being killed by a crowd of eleven-year-students, 
surrounding him like Children of the Corn, chanting, "Stopped death!  Stopper death!"  
before throwing him into a giant cauldron....