The Unloved Son (was Re: Could I be wrong about Snape being evil?)

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 156733

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Actually, I'm not really so much interested in rescuing Snape, who
> needs fairly severe punishment, I think, for his abuse of Harry and
> Neville no matter what explanation is given, but Dumbledore.  The
> unloved son scenario provides a Dumbledore who is loving and means
> well but is caught in a trap many a father-figure must face, and who
> mistakes classic, but understandable, mistakes in trying to deal 
with
> it.  Other varieties of Snape often predicate fairly noxious 
versions
> of Dumbledore, and leave the title "epitome of goodness" and "very
> wise man" as nothing more than bad jokes to be invoked by late night
> stand-up comedians.
> 
> So the Unloved Son depends for its importance, as far as I'm
> concerned, on its corollary -- the Loving but Fallible and
> Emotionally Blind Father.
> 



I think we must remember that at the end of OOTP, DD tells Harry that 
he had concocted a plan to destroy LV. That plan involved Harry, and 
because of it's importance it was imperative that DD not generate 
feelings for Harry. The plan was too important. Therefore we have 
canon evidence that DD had decided on a course of action to defeat 
Voldemort and that he would have to remain emotionally detatched for 
it to succeed. As we know, in the case of Harry, he failed in this 
goal.
However, it also seems that this plan also involved Severus Snape. It 
therefore follows that DD would also tell himself that he needed to 
remain emotionally detatched from the consequences for Snape that 
this plan entailed. I do not think it would be hard for DD to remain 
emotionally detatched when it came to Snape!!

Therefore, from his own mouth, DD has stated that he very much wanted 
to be cold, hard, detatched from the suffering of others to ensure 
his plan succeeded!

Brothergib