Snape again/Love and Vengeance/Ending

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 145802

Alla, responding to a SSSusan post from yesterday:
> So, we do agree that despite the fact that Love will be the main 
> theme at the end, the bad guys ( whoever they are - here we differ 
> a bit :-)) will be punished, but probably not from Harry's hand. :-)
> 
> Right?

SSSusan:
Yep, I think so.  I believe Voldy for sure will be punished (and 
possibly by Harry) and that many of the DEs will be punished and that 
Snape *likely* will get some comeuppance, ***although*** with one big 
caveat. <g>  That caveat, not surprisingly, relates to your statement 
above concerning whoever those bad guys turn out to be.

Because I am a DDM!Snaper, in my mind Snape's comeuppance may have 
already come in his taking DD's life.  If he *is* DDM, and if his 
loyalty really does lie with the Order, and if I'm right that DD 
commanded/requested that Snape kill him, then casting that AK may 
have been the most painful, most difficult thing Snape's had to do in 
a long, long time, or ever.  

So, to me, if he proves out as DDM, then I'll be content with that as 
punishment enough for Snape.  He had to kill the man he most admired, 
respected and perhaps loved?  He had to lose the trust of all those 
in the Order?  He had to flee Hogwarts?  All because of how it 
*appeared* that he'd murdered DD because he wanted to.  Yikes! That's 
painful.  

I know that that doesn't address the notion of *karmic* payback which 
Lupinlore explained more fully one time, that the payback or 
comeuppance should *associate* with the sin itself.  IOW that the 
kind of comeuppance I describe in DD's killing wouldn't "fit" 
the "crime" of his treatment of Harry and Neville.  I acknowledge 
that position, but I'm saying that for *me* if Snape turns out to be 
who & what I think he is, then his having had to kill DD would be 
sufficient enough pain for Snape to endure in *my* eyes.

If I'm wrong about all that, and especially if I'm wrong about his 
being DDM, then I would agree that he needs a BIG comeuppance before 
the conclusion of the series.

Siriusly Snapey Susan