Terminal Stupidity of Snapey-Poo (was Re: Nice vs. Good - Compassion)b

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 153253

> > Leslie41:
> > Again, you are free to think what you like.  Your opinion is not
> > logical or supportable, but no one is going to force you to
abandon
> > it.

 Oh, I don't know about that at all - the supportable part.  Let's
take for instance the idea that Snapey-poo is DDM!  Well, he's
managed to get himself into quite a bind, hasn't he?  If he wants
to prove his loyalty to the one person who matters, i.e. Harry, then
he's up the proverbial creek o' excrement.  For that matter, it
seems hardly likely that anyone will listen to him in the face of 
Harry's eye-witness testimony.  So even to get, say Lupin, to listen 
he probably would have to convince Harry first.

Even leaving aside that he wants to contact the Order and argue for
his innocence, or at least his following DD's orders, suppose he
wants to cooperate and coordinate efforts with Harry to bring down
Voldemort.  Once again, he's up Excrement Creek.

And who does he have to thank for this?  Who does he have to thank
for the speed with which everyone turns on him?  Who does he have
to thank for the jeers of derision that would likely greet any
protests on his part of working according to DD's plan?  Why, Snapey-
poo can only thank ... Snapey-poo!  By his treatment of Harry, he has
essentially guaranteed that the one person he needs to listen to
him will not do it.  An extraordinarily stupid thing to do.

Indeed, a terminally stupid thing to do, as such a state of affairs
bids fair to bring an end (sad, painful, but not at all untimely)
to his life.  And all because poor Snapey-poo couldn't be bothered to 
act like a decent human being to the children he's supposed to be 
teaching (and no, his actions in saving Harry do not, IMO, make him a 
decent human being).

Then again, it is a wonderful lesson in how to keep away life-
insurance salesmen.


Lupinlore