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

[latha279]

No: HPFGUIDX 147286

bboyminn:
 
> Excellent post by Brady. He agrees with me, so, of course it's
> excellent (humor).
> 
> I'm not trying to counter anything that Brady said, I'm just going 
> to expand on some aspects of the prophecy. 
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> But, again, comparing Snape's action specifically to Petigrew's, I
> don't see how any can fail to see the difference between them. 
> Snape was doing his nasty job unaware of the nature of 
> the /specific/ consequences. Wormtail/Petigrew on the other hand 
> betrayed his best and probably only friends because he was a 
> coward. He sold the Potters to Voldemort like a sack of cheap 
> potatoes, and has shown no remorse for his actions. Snape and 
> Dumbledore, on the other hand, claim that Snape is deeply 
> remorseful of the consequence of his actions.
> 
> Big difference as far as I'm concerned.


brady:

:) Thanks Steve. But I wanted to put one thing very straight -- I am 
a girl :)). I agree it is very very difficult to know that from my 
name. I haven't had a more hearty laugh first thing in office on 
monday morning ever before. Thanks so much.

And yes, coming back to the interpretation again, apart from the 
fact that there is no way to determine who the person would be 
(whether already born, marked or anything) there was also no way 
Snape would know HOW exactly and WHEN exactly LV would react to the 
news. LV may just have sat with the news for a 100 years for all we 
know, just to make sure he gets his real enemy (so-the-prophesy-
says). Or he may just have relied on his horcruxes more and said "I 
am invincible. Let whoever *approach*. I don't care". 

Snape, however, is definitely nasty. The whole act of DEs is nasty 
and there is no justification/redemption whatsoever for all those 
sins. But, comparing that to PP's act of betrayal, Snape is 
definitely better than PP. 

Why would DE!Snape wait till HP be born? He would have murdered 
Sirius and James the day he learnt the AV curse. Right? If he has 
ever hated anyone in life, it was definitely these two. Now, why 
didn't he do that? The Potters sought a secret-keeper on DD's 
warning/planning AND only after the prophesy was made. But Snape has 
held a grudge for a long time against James and Sirius. So why has 
he never tried to kill them before? Even a DE Snape didn't think of 
doing that. Snape did not need a reason to kill after he became a DE. 
He could have gone and killed them for his own desire. Yet, he 
didn't do it. But, Peter was just the opposite. At the very first 
opportunity, he gave up his friends. 

Who needs enemies if you have people like Peter for friends!! 

I will still stick to the line that Snape is maybe 0.1% guilty for 
the Potters death, but Peter is 100% guilty for the same. and there 
I think is your gradation. A 1000 times difference in percentage of 
guilt. You can make whatever you want out of that.

JMHO,
brady.