Depth? Things to take on their face value (Was: Sirius' loyalty)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 139803

Jen wrote:
Then we have the biggie, the one which is harder to accept:
Dumbledore trusts Snape and since Dumbledore is so clever he
sometimes makes comparatively 'huger' mistakes than the rest. Hmmmm.
Still can't accept that one quite yet. Not because it would make
Dumbledore a fool, since choosing to love and trust over feeling
hate and suspicion are 'generally preferable' as DD (JKR) would say.
But it would negate Dumbledore's life work, in a sense. He trusted
someone he shouldn't have, allowed him into Hogwarts & the Order,
and it led to death and destruction of many of the things he holds
dear. And the chain is just beginning, the ramifications of
Dumbledore's huge mistake would mount in Book 7 if Snape truly is
working at Voldemort's side. If this one is true, the real
redemption will be Harry righting Dumbledore's wrong.

vmonte:

Isn't real life like this though? There is alway s someone else ready
to come up through the ranks and take the place of the last bad guy. 
Snape even talks about the Dark Arts as a many headed monster. Each 
time a neck is severed, a new head sprouts even fiecer and cleverer 
than before. Evil never ends. 

So, even if Snape dies in the end do you honestly believe that there 
won't be someone waiting in the wings to take his place? 

Imagine a scenario (I'm not saying this is going to happen) where 
Draco is saved by Ron or Harry from Fenrir (I just picked Fenrir off 
the top of my head because this is would be Karmic justice for Draco 
for letting this guy into the school. Besides, Draco is afraid of 
werewolves:  `The Forest?' he [Malfoy] repeated, and he didn't sound 
quite as cool as usual. `We can'y go in there at night-there's all 
sorts of things in there—werewolves, I heard.' (PS15))

Anyway, Draco then decides to switch sides (because it's in his best 
interest anyway) and helps to bring down...Snape? 

In the end Draco is not sent to Azkaban because he switched sides and 
helped the ministry. I mean it isn't like he was responsible for 
Dumbledore's death right? It's not like he pulled the trigger or 
anything like that--he just led the bad people to him, right? (I'm 
being sarcastic.) Poor misunderstood Draco will go scott free. 

Of course he will not appreciate the person that saved him. And he 
will also hate their children, forever. 

Vivian