[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's penance and the meaning of a split soul

[Bee Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 139453




SiriuslySnapeySusan wrote:
> <snip> I'd like to go with the possibility that Snape's soul *was*
ripped.
> 
> If you and I are right that DD asked Snape to kill him <snip> there 
> are many people who have a problem with the notion of DD asking 
> someone to commit murder, of asking a person to do something which 
> rips his soul.  
> 
> Now, I actually happen to think (and I have no canon support, I 
> know!) that it's possible that a "mercy killing" or a killing 
> commanded by a superior officer in time of war just might not cause 
> the soul to rip the way that a cold-blooded murder does.  But 
> assuming the other folks are correct and I'm wrong -- that even this 
> kind of killing DOES cause the rip -- might it not be that this 
> horrible thing, this ripping of the soul, is simply the *penance* 
> Snape is paying for the mistakes he's made?  

Luckdragon:

Assuming that Snape made an unbreakable vow to DD is it not possible that this vow could have been reversed at a future date if both parties agreed to it? If DD knew his death must happen at Snapes hands in order to allow Harry's progression towards his goal? Also who was the third party involved in binding and possibly unbinding the vow between DD and Snape. 



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