[HPforGrownups] Re: An (interesting ?) parallel/ My doubts about Snape being Evil

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 139466

dumbledore11214 wrote:

> Irene: 
> 
>>Yes, right after the battle ends. Or right after
Harry
>>stops insisting on his right to keep his mind wide
>>open for Voldemort, whichever comes first.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> OK, I am REALLY happy to hear it. I was afraid that
you subscribe to 
> the idea that Snape is so damaged that he should be
excused from any 
> responsibility for his actions.

No, not at all. I think the confusion results from the
fact that this 
war just lasts too long.
If after Snape had come to Dumbledore with his
defection, Dumbledore 
would've been able to get rid of Voldemort the next
day, things would 
have been so much more neat. Then Dumbledore could
demand from Snape to 
change his attitude, apologise to Harry and what not.
However, they are 
still at war, and Snape's position in this war
requires some 
psychological ambiguity. It's not a good time to deal
with anybody's 
hurt feelings. Yes, I include Snape in that statement
as well. Obviously 
Dumbledore agrees, witness his behaviour in PoA. :-)


>>To bring it back to Hogwarts, if Dumbledore accepted
>>Snape's defection from Voldie under condition that
>>Snape will devote his life to repaying that debt, I
>>guess Snape would have rather committed suicide
there
>>and then, because that's would not be life anyway.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I am afraid I don't understand. You were arguing in
your original 
> post that just as Aslan forgave Edmund, Snape needs
to be forgiven, 
> right?
> 
> Well, I was responding that IMO Snape has wronged
Harry SO badly that 
> IF he is sorry indeed, I expect him to behave
differently.

But that's what I'm saying above - it was different
for Edmund, he was 
firmly back on the side of light, so he could afford
to behave 
differently. Snape can not. It may well be that he is
not able to, or 
would not want to, but we can't tell really, because
we've never 
observed him without that limitation.

> 
> I am afraid I don't get your analogy about  the
couple either. Are 
> you thinking of Snape and Harry or Snape and
Dumbledore?

More of Snape and Everybody He'd Wronged While Serving
Voldemort. :-)
If Dumbledore tried to enforce "you have to be very
humble around these 
people for the rest of your life", I think Snape would
rather end his 
life here and now.

Irene



		
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