Shaken Dumbledore? /Snape speech to Bella again

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 143442

> Carol:
> 
> I noticed another small piece of evidence for this view in "Spinner's
> End." Snape says that he preferred his comfortable job at Hogwarts to
> "a stint in Azkaban" (27). Not a life sentence to Azkaban, which he
> would have received had he cast any one of the Unforgiveable Curses,
> but a stint--defined by my dictionary as a definite and limited 
amount
> of time, usually brief--a year or two, possibly, but not a lifetime. 

a_svirn:
He could mean a) that even though he had performed Unforgivables the 
Ministry didn't have much in a way of evidence to incarcerate him 
indefinitely; b) that he was simply being sarcastic like with "I don't 
know what he means by it"; c) that from the true DE point of view any 
period in Azkaban could only be temporary, since the Dark Lord could 
be counted upon rising again; d) all of the above simultaneously. 

a_svirn