VA/H=Mx13+RP? Snape's Culpability?

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> Magpie:
<SNIP>
 But if he did take 
> steps to protect the Potters, I think he made up for what he did 
and you 
> just have to move forward from that.

Alla:

Keep in mind that it is after midnight here, so I may not express 
myself as clear as I wish ( I probably should not write anything 
that late), but here is what I think today - as I said YES, Snape 
gets a cookie if he tried to do a right thing, but in my book there 
are some decisions you just cannot completely make up for , no 
matter how hard you try. So, Snape doing the right thing (IF he did, 
which as I said I am not sure at all), it mitigates what he did in 
my eyes, BUT I am not willing to say that it  never happened - he 
unleashed a HUGE chain reaction, IMO, he is guilty and always be 
guilty of that. I guess what I am saying is that he cannot make up 
for that completely, unless he is able to return Potters to life, 
which as we know he cannot. IMO of course.


 
> Magpie:
> Imo, since you can't turn back time, it's pointless to hold Snape 
> responsible for that. 

Alla:
I disagree.

Magpie:
 Practically, you can't talk about the story of how 
> the Potters came to be murdered without Snape.  His actions are 
part of the 
> plot.  

Alla: 

I agree. :-)


Magpie:
But I don't think the fact that Peter's own test came later in the 
> chain of events ties Snape to that decision.  We're all in an 
endless chain 
> of events. 

Alla:

But Snape STARTED that chain of events. Not anybody else, but Snape. 
Without Snape's acting Peter's betrayal may have never happened, so 
YES IMO Peter's teast WAS Peter's test, NOT Snape's, but the fact 
that Peter's test came to fruition BECAUSE of Snape actions makes 
Snape a very guilty person in my eyes and yes, tied to what Peter 
did.


Magpie:
 So in terms of blaming Snape as if he deserves punishment or 
> should be held accountable *if* he repented and did the best he 
could to fix 
> what he did no, I don't agree.

Alla:

Just want to be clear, you are saying that IF Snape tried to protect 
the Potters after what he did, basically his plate is clean and it 
is as if he never blabbed prophecy to Voldemort? Is this your 
argument? If the answer is yes, then I disagree. I think that if 
Snape is DD!M indeed, which I SO strongly doubt,  the guilt of 
Potters deaths is something he is going to have to live with for the 
rest of his life, UNLESS Harry will forgive him of course. IMO of 
course.

Alla.