Importance of Audience (was Re: Dumbledore or Snape)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 141464

 
> Geoff:
 
> However, [Abraham] was prepared to go to the wire to obey God and 
show that he 
> had faith in him. But he was never called to go the last step of 
> sacrificing Isaac so a comparable situation to that of Snape and 
> Dumbledore didn't actually come into play.
> 

Hickengruendler:

Yes, it does. Because Abraham would have done it. He raised his 
knife, reading to sacrifice Isaak, and *then*, when God saw, that 
Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son for him he stopped it and 
made Abraham killing an animal instead. The only difference between 
Snape and Abraham here (assuming the Snape sacrifices Dumbldore for 
the greater good theory is true) was, that an outer force stopped 
Abraham. But if this hadn't happened, Abraham would have done it. 
That means, like Snape in the DD sacrifice theory, he was completely 
willing to sarifice a beloved person for a greater good (or in 
Abraham's case for demonstrating that he loved God more). That it 
didn't happen had nothing to with Abraham himself.