Snape and the "Chosen One" Was: Nice vs. Good - Compassion

[leslie41]

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> > Leslie41:
> > My initial instinct is to believe that Snape inherently 
> > distrusts Harry's status as the "Chosen One," and doesn't really 
> > believe Harry is as important as everyone says he is.
> > 
> > Snape has, of course, every reason to believe Harry *is* 
> > important, but I don't think he does, because of the reasons 
> > *why* Harry is important.
> > 

> Lupinlore:
> And once again, we are back to a terminally stupid Snapey-poo.  
> Actually, we are more back to a terminally incompetent Dumbledore, 
> who seems to hold personal privacy above the imperative to protect 
> children from being abused.  

Leslie41:
And once again, we're back to the "Snape as Abuser" assertion.  One 
question:  Do you count Lupin "abusive" for roaming about Hogwarts 
for years while he was a werewolf, nearly killing people?  He did it 
every month for years, and actually *laughed* about the "near 
misses" they had.

Whatever Snape does to students, he does not methodically go about 
endangering their lives on a monthly basis, then laughing about it 
afterwards.  And if your defense is "oh, they were only teenagers!", 
what about not telling DD that Black was an unregistered animagus?  
Lupin himself says that Snape was right about him.  

You give Remus an awful lot of slack, and I don't begrudge you 
that.  I give him slack too.  But you use Remus' slack to make a 
noose for Snape, and that, Lupinlore, don't make no sense at all.  
Thus I find it hard to take your assertions about Snape seriously, 
because you're most obviously can't dole out your assessments of the 
character's behaviors with impartiality.  You like Lupin, so you 
explain away what he does, even though it's illegal and immoral and 
wrong and could have led to the deaths of many.  You don't like 
Snape so he's "abusive" and can do absolutely no right.

It's just not that cut and dried.

> Lupinlore:
> Yet the question of what Snapey-poo knows and when he knows it IS 
> an interesting one.  What does Snape know?  Not the full prophecy, 
> we are  told, but what else has he been told?  

Leslie41:
I wish I knew.  I could make myself a big pot of money and retire.