Harry IS Snape!

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No: HPFGUIDX 141086

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
>  
> > Marianne:
> > As always, an interesting post.  However, where in this view of 
>  Snape, does Snape's tale of remorse come in?  If he has firmly 
held 
> onto his hatred of James from school age through the present,
> (which  I agree he has, like a barnacle to a hull) then it seems 
like
> the remorse he told Dumbledore about is a somewhat selective 
> remorse, if  indeed it existed at all. And for me, that still calls
> into question  how much Snape can be believed. 
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> The one place I disagree with Julie's excellent post is the idea 
that
> Snape wouldn't have been sorry to learn that James was dead. 
> Hatred, no matter how irrational, is not the same thing as wanting 
> to kill someone. No one would deny that Harry hates Draco; all the 
> same Harry was horrified by the result of his spell and surely 
would 
> have been sorry if Draco had died -- not because he cared about
> Draco but because Harry did not want to be a killer.
> 
> Is  it such a stretch to think that despite trying to get James
> expelled, and hexing him whenever he got the chance, 
> despite joining the Death Eaters, Snape did not want to kill 
> James?
> 
> Perhaps teenaged Snape, like Draco, fancied he could become 
> a killer, but was revolted when  faced with the reality.

Marianne:

I'm not saying that Snape wanted to kill James himself.  I just 
don't buy that he was seized with regret once someone else killed 
James. 

Yes, Snape may very well not wanted to raise his wand and perform an 
actual murder.  Bella may be right about him and he has managed to 
avoid some of the messier actions of DEs.  He may even be revolted 
by the idea of killing.  However, he seems to have okay with passing 
on the words of the prophecy, which he must have known would put 
other people in mortal danger. 

The idea that Snape would have no regrets about nameless people he 
has put in danger, but suddenly change sides in a war once his 
nemesis was killed doesn't click with me. Given the history between 
James and Snape, I find it hard to swallow that, in the midst of 
this horrific, years-long war, when all sorts of people were dying 
and disappearing, Snape would suddenly find himself in a fit of 
remorse over the death of his long-time enemy.

Marianne