Snape-the Hero -- Snape-the Abuser

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 143304

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hekatesheadband" <sophiapriskilla at y...> 
wrote:

> I don't know what trauma even a DDM!Snape might have been experiencing
> at the moment, and more to the point, I don't care. He's obviously
> aware of the whole situation - see his responses to it, and to Harry.
> Harry has just gone through plenty of trauma on his own (surely a
> DDM!Harry in the cave is analogous to a DDM!Snape on the tower? Though
> I don't buy the latter...). He's aware of Fang's fear and agony (he's
> conflated with the narrator in this scene), and when Snape runs, Harry
> chooses to let him run so that he can save Fang, rather than trying to
> pursue him and leaving Fang to die. 
> 
> Snape could have saved Fang at any point at no cost to himself (do you
> think Voldemort would compromise himself by killing his most useful
> operatives for being sentimental about dogs? If he were that dim he'd
> never have learnt to spell "horcrux," much less make six of the
> things). He never even tries - a simple "Accio Fang" would have
> sufficed. Harry does the right thing - what any human with the
> smallest scrap of decency anywhere would do - and saves Fang
> immediately (i.e., as soon as he has his wand and can use it). Snape
> was letting him burn alive.

Pippin:
Um, where are you getting all this? Canon is very clear about what happened.
Snape  fled because Buckbeak chased him off. Then --
" Harry struggled to his feet, hoping to give chase again, but even as his 
fingers fumbled in the grass, discarding twigs, he knew it would be too
late, and sure enough, by the time he had located his wand, he turned
only to see the hippogriff circling the gates. Snape had managed to
Disapparate just beyond the school's boundaries."

Harry is thinking only of chasing Snape, not rescuing Fang, and in fact
it is Hagrid who rescued the dog, not Harry.  

If Snape deserves karmic punishment for endangering Harry with his
sarcasm and malice, even if Harry didn't come to harm through them, 
then shouldn't Lupin and his pals suffer karmic punishment also for 
endangering the innocent villagers of Hogsmead? The Marauders can't be 
excused for their youth if the outings lasted into their seventh year when 
they were adults. 

Pippin