Snape's penance? (was: Opposite of a Horcrux/Interesting ...

[lagattalucianese]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 9/3/2005 12:06:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> susiequsie23 at s... writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
If not ripping the soul, what about tearing the heart? I think this is 
Snape's penance, that he is put in a position where he has to kill the 
only real friend he has in the world, even if it is at the friend's 
request. To me, that explains both his look of "revulsion and hatred" 
and his fury when Harry calls him a coward.

--Gatta