fading importance of adult characters/Snape again

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 146901


> Marianne:
> Which may also neatly deal with Redeemed!Snape.  Maybe he's not the 
> one to be redeemed; maybe it's Draco. I know JKR said in an 
> interview that she was shocked/surprised that her interviewer 
> suggested there was a redemptive pattern to Snape.  Maybe her 
> surprise was not so much that the interviewer mentioned *Snape*, 
but 
> that the interviewer figured out relatively early in the serires 
> that *redemption* would play a crucial role. Draco may be the one 
> who turns from the Dark Side, which Snape ultimately will fail to 
do.

zgirnius:
Or, if Snape turns out DDM: his role, instead of being something more 
central to the plot of Book 7, will turn out to be that he saved 
Draco from the consequences of his bad choice in Book 6, and kept him 
alive and free to finish making the choice Dumbledore offered him on 
the Tower.

> Claudia here:
> Now I'm purely speculating here:
What if DD promised him that nothing the like would happen again and
that he would see to it that they (the Marauders) learnt to be more
responsible? A boy like Snape (especially assuming his abusive
childhood) would most likely think DD was to inflict some heavy
punishment on the boys. Instead DD meant to achieve this by making
James Head Boy, hoping this would evoke his inherent better
qualities. 
> But it was a terrible blow on Snape. He probably didn't turn in 
Lupin then because his anger had turned towards DD and his handling of
the "prank".

>The starting point of DD's attitude towards the redeeming Snape would
in this case actually be guilt, for fearing that his actions had
partly driven Snape into Voldemort's arms.

zgirnius again:
Oh, that is an interesting suggestion too! 

And it has the advantage (?) of working well for many flavors of 
Snape. It would be a fine personal motive for Snape to have always 
hated Dumbledore...not that I believe this for a moment. 

And it would have made his action of approaching Dumbledore on behalf 
of the Potters that much more difficult for him, assuming he was 
sincere. The poor guy is a master at the nursing of grudges, 
apparently, it would hurt to have to go to Dumbledore and admit a 
mistake to him and ask for his help.