Snape's Culpability? ...Was or Will Be Born

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 147329

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
<snip>
> I really don't see how anyone can hold Snape responsible for the 
mad
> rambling conclusions of Voldemort. Certainly Snape has done his 
share
> of wrong, and has commited his share of crimes; he was a Death 
Eater
> after all. But to say that he could predict the full extent of
> Voldemort's conclusions relative to the Prophecy fragment seems 
beyond
> the pale.
> 
> Yes, by passing the Prophecy fragment to Voldemort, Snape set a 
series
> of unpredictable events into motion, but I hardly see him any more 
to
> blame that the CIA agent who gathered info on Weapons of Mass
> Destruction and passed them on. 
> 
> That CIA agent couldn't possibly know in the moment that this
> information would be used as an immediate call to war by the
> President. Neither could Snape, predict or be held accountable for 
the
> decisions of his leader. In both cased the 'agent' knew that this 
was
> important information with /nasty/ potential, but it is their job 
to
> pass the information on, not to speculate on the /nasty/ potential
> lurking in the minds of their own leaders. 
> 
> Again, just trying to put things in perspective.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn
>

If I may add something to this argument...isn't the whole point of 
DDM!Snape that Snape feels "responsible" for the death of the 
Potters? Isn't the reason that Snape felt his "deepest remorse" 
because his actions resulted in their being targetted and their 
deaths? 

To say that Snape in the grand scheme of things isn't really that 
responsible is great but on a deep, personal level Snape passing the 
prophecy and the results of those actions shook Snape's world to 
it's core and altered his path in life. So I think that Snape feels 
that he is responsible for the deaths of the Potters (at least if 
he's DDM).

Quick_Silver