Snape as infidel was Re: Kant and Snape and Ethics and Ev...

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>Nora:
I> get the suspicion that if Snape is to live, he's going  to have to
>have some kind of concession  scene.

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> 
> The whole "I hoped Professor Snape  would be able to get over..." 
> speech at the end of OotP seemed to me,  at least, to be a hope not 
> only for the specific actions (that Snape  would come to see Harry as 
> a person in and of himself and maybe even  love him like Dumbledore 
> obviously does), but that those actions would  actually be a deep 
> change in Snape's perspective on life.   

>Pippin:
>But Dumbledore blames Snape's lack of recovery on  Snape's wounds not
>on his choices and there is no hint that he considers  it a moral failure
>of Snape's. 

Nikkalmati:
 
At the end, IF Snape and Harry are still alive, I believe there will  be some 
changes in Snape, but we may not see it and it will be the result of a  
change in his circumstances.  First, as a practical matter, Harry and  DDMSnape are 
going to have to work together to achieve the overthrow of  LV.  That will 
require some level of mutual respect (and some interesting  plot turns).  Also, 
we must consider the substantial change in SS's  position.  Look at it from 
his POV.  He has been stuck at Hogwarts for  10-15 years not able to move on and 
unable to do anything about LV himself  because of the prophecy.  After the 
war, he will no longer be under  the stress of living a double life;  there is 
no reason for him to teach or  associate with anyone he doesn't like (or 
anyone at all for that  matter).   
 
Right now he has been waiting a decade for this kid to show up, who has  SS's 
own future in his hands and he turns out to be this nitwit, who in  SS's 
view, is not up to the job.  He doesn't work hard, he doesn't  show special powers 
and he doesn't seem to care!  If Harry had been more  like Hermione, I don't 
think SS would have disliked him so.  Now he is  stuck waiting for the kid to 
grow up, watching him every day, and it  doesn't seem to be happening. Just 
one more reason why SS doesn't like  Harry.  Once LV is gone, SS's temper will 
no doubt improve.
 
BTW, as I said before, when DD told Harry (more or less) that he had  hoped 
SS would be able to put aside his hatred of James and teach Harry  Occlumency, 
he didn't know what had really happened in that classroom between SS  and 
Harry.  Is there any canon that would tell us he did know?
 
Nikkalmati
 


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