It is all about Snape WAS: Re: Hearing from the Great Middle

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 140111

Lupinlore:
> <snip>
> > 
> > Having said that, I do believe that, from the standpoint of plot
> and literary merit, it makes a lot more sense for Snape not to be 
> completely on any side but his own. 
> 
> Pippin:
> Um, I don't think I follow. Are you suggesting that if Snape
murdered 
> Dumbledore for purely selfish reasons, rather than to assist Lord 
> Voldemort, he wouldn't be evil? ::boggles:::
> 


Alla:

I don't want to speak for Lupinlore of course, but to me the
situation 
in which Snape would be out for himself is when he murdered
Dumbledore 
not because he intended to follow through with the task which
Voldemort 
said, but because SNAPE felt that he had no other choice.

Please take into consideration that I am not saying that NARRATOR
(and 
I mean JKR here) will agree with Snape that he had no other choice, I 
am just saying that Snape may felt that killing Dumbledore was 
justified, because that would allow Snape to live.

Actually, come to think of it Snape may have felt that he would
indeed 
help good guys by killing Dumbledore and staying alive.

Hmmm, I think I am describing Snape from Siguine's essay again, but
she 
was more talking about good Snape. Sigh...

I guess I have to backtrack and hope that Lupinlore would be able to 
explain better, I am just saying that Snape who killed primarily 
because he wanted to stay alive, in my mind, had better chance to be 
redeemed than the one who killed specifically because he was
fulfilling 
what Voldemort ordered.

I managed to confuse myself, I think.


JMO,

Alla.