Who is the real dark character in the series?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 143520

> Miles: 
> What kind of justice? Poetic? ;) SCNR
> But - Snape *is* punished, if he is DDM. He killed Dumbledore! 
Dumbledore,
> the only man that trusted him out of true belief. And he will be 
the one who
> killed the greatest wizard of his time. He will never return to 
Hogwarts. He
> will be even more an outsider than ever before.
> You really think he has not to pay a very high price? I do.
> 

 
No, I really don't think Snape has been punished (within the context 
of the Harry/Neville situation), because his suffering has not yet 
been directly linked to his unforgiveable treatment of Harry and 
Neville.  Now, if, in Book VII, it is verified that Snape is in a 
great deal of pain, and that he believes that if he had treated Harry 
and Neville better that pain might have been, at least in part, 
averted (whether he is actually *sorry* would depend on which type of 
Snape we end up with), and especially if we are given evidence that 
he was warned/advised to mend his ways (probably but not necessarily 
by DD) then I would agree that yes, poetic justice has in large part 
been served (and with no particular reason to go very deep into a lot 
of specific instances).  However, absent such evidence, I would say 
that it has not yet been served.  As with DD and the Dursleys before 
HBP, we are awaiting a shoe to drop.  I am afraid, however, that as 
with DD and the Dursleys the dropping of the shoe will create as many 
problems/holes/arguments as it palliates.


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