Blown!Snape

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 162677

> Neri:
> No, it doesn't. You are mixing two different kinds of 
responsibility 
> from two different points of views and in different moralities. 
From 
> his point of view, DDM!Snape is definitely not morally responsible 
> if, because he stabbed an enemy in the back (even if that enemy 
> believed Snape to be his friend at the time), then as a result 
> *another* enemy arbitrarily decides to send the son of the first 
> enemy to a suicide mission. But from Narcissa's point of view, she 
> would definitely want revenge on Snape for stabbing Lucius (enemy 
or 
> friend, in the back or in the front).

zgirnius:
It's not so clear-cut. Yes, DDM!Snape is an enemy of Lucius in the 
sense that he is in the anti-Voldemort group, and Lucius is in the 
pro-Voldemort group. But Lucius does not know this, and may view 
Snape as a friend (Cissy claims he does, I figure she probably 
knows). 

Also, Snape may view Lucius as a friend, based on whatever sort of 
relationship they may have had for all these years. (It may well 
predate Snape's 'return', or evn his hjoining of hte DEs int he first 
place, after all). Even if at the 'war' level Snape is acting 
properly in his role on his side of the war, this does not prevent 
him, necessarily, from experiencing what he did to Lucius as a 
personal betrayal at the same time. As someone pointed out, this is a 
civil war.

This hypothetical feeling did not prevent him from doing it in the 
first place, but it makes psychological sense to me that if he thinks 
he can make it up to Lucius in some way without hurting 'his' side in 
the war, he'd go for it.

Not saying I agree with Pippin's idea, but it makes sense to me.