Is Punishment the only recompense? (was Re: Straightforward readings?)

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 140753

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:

> So will it be enough, that Snape makes a genuine effort to  atone,
> 
> and is punished in the more poetic sense of justice by giving his
> life away to the cause of Good (and I suspect giving his life away
> will be factually accurate by the end of Book 7)? Or, proving to be
> DD'sMan, should he help Harry defeat Voldemort and somehow
> manage to live through it all, will his good deeds outweigh his bad, 
> enough that he has paid his debt to WW society?

Marianne:

I've done massive snippage of Juli's comments to get to her question.  
I'd be happy with Snape's genuine effort to atone with one addition.  
I'd like to see him admit in actual, spoken sentences that he did has 
done some bad things and is genuinely sorry.  Hearing about his 
remorse second-hand from Dumbledore is not enough, IMO. Maybe that's 
just me as a reader wanting to see the character in question show the 
emotions and thoughts that others have attributed to him.  But, 
without Snape actually telling/showing me himself, then I'd find the 
result unsatisfying.

Marianne, still in the OFH!Snape camp