Should Snape be forgiven? /Re: An (interesting ?) parallel/

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Irene:
> 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.


Alla:

OK, Irene, I am very sorry, but I am still not getting what your 
point is. I am not being sarcastic, I truly don't understand your 
argument.
Yes, it was probably different for Edmund, but why did you bring up 
the parallel originally, weren't you saying that just as Edmund was 
forgiven, Snape should be to?

If it WAS different for Edmund, doesn't it make the parallel to be 
irrelevant?


Irene:
> 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.


Alla:

But why should the people whom Snape wronged be concerned about it? 
Isn't apologising to THEM what counts the most, not how Snape feels 
about it?

Snape should choose, IMO because if he truly wants forgiveness, he 
cannot just engage in nasty behaviour towards those whom he wronged, 
because he poor dear cannot bear to be humble towards those who 
suffered because of him.

If he does not want forgiveness and would rather end his life, well, 
that is his choice, IMO.

But he cannot have his cake and eat it too, IMO. If he indeed 
striving towards changing his ways, trying to make up for enormous 
misery he cost Harry ( and probably other people too, but that is 
just speculation), he should behave totally differently than what he 
was doing.

I don't know if I buy  the "war still going on" either, because 
Voldemort only returned at the end of GoF. Again, I am not saying 
that Snape should have kissed Harry  and hugged him the moment Harry 
came to Hogwarts. I am just saying that he should have ignored the 
boy, that is all ( that is of course if some contingency plans had 
to be made for Voldemort's return -  namely for Snape not to be 
Harry's friend, which I am not convinced at all)

But I don't believe that Snape being Harry's enemy was needed for 
anything - I think that was totally Snape's doing  and again, that 
is not how person who is complicit in death's of the boy parents 
should behave.

It makes me doubt that Snape truly changed his ways.


Just my opinion of course,

Alla