ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey? (WAS: DDM!Snape the definition)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 162690


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
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>
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> I know it's not airtight, but then neither is Dumbledore's
explanation
> for why he didn't try stopping Draco to be honest.  I think it's
more
> important to JKR though that she puts the characters through the
mill,
> than that all other logical possiblities are exhausted
> (*cough*triwizard cup portkey *cough*).

ROTFLMAO!!!  Oh yes, yes, yes!  JKR has many weaknesses as a writer,
but this is one of her great ones, the glaring illogic in many of her
plot points.  That an "epitome of goodness" would sit back and let
Draco get away with attempted murder is absolutely absurd.  It is a
triumph of plot over character.

Snape's hook isn't that he can't prance about in sunny
> confidence that he'll be exhonorated, any more than Sirius' was
really
> that he hadn't cleared his name.  It's that he killed him mentor and
> has to go make nice with Voldemort and crawl around in a pit of
> despair.  I think that's enough to be going on with!
>

Oh my heavens, no, no, and NO!  Snape has abused Harry from day one,
and unless that is dealt with clearly and decisively, in the form of
clear punishment for Snape and clear and humble apologies from both
Snape and the dead Dumbledore (perhaps through his portrait) then JKR
will have clearly approved of the abuse of children, and will have
failed in a way beyond contempt.  No action Snape takes will
substitute for the clear and humble apology he owes Harry --
including offering up his life.


Lupinlore, who agrees that the Triwizard Portkey was absurd, but
thinks that any defense of DD and his policy toward Draco is even
more so