Evil Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 154258

>
> Nikkalmati:
> Example: his certain belief in his own POV leads him to misrepresent to the
> Order what DD told him about why Snape left LV.  HBP 616 "Snape passed  
> Voldemort the information that made Voldemort hunt down my mum and dad.
> Then Snape 
> told Dumbledore he had not realized what he was doing, he was  really sorry
> he'd done it, sorry that they were dead." We know DD told Harry  Snape came
> to him with some story long before the Potters were killed, so that  is a
> distortion in Harry's thinking.  
> 
> 
> Sherry now:
> 
> Is that actually deliberate misleading, or is it just the anguish of just
> having seen Dumbledore die and not seeing or saying things clearly.  It's a
> long time since I read HBP, but didn't he just find out this juicy bit of
> info that night, before going off with Dumbledore?  I never considered it to
> be deliberate, but more just the natural way things get tangled up in the
> immediate aftermath of a sudden and shocking situation.  Harry had certainly
> been through a hell of a lot that night!
> 

Pippin:
No, it's not deliberately misleading, but it's still arrogant and wrong. 
Crouch Sr. didn't think he was putting an innocent man in prison when
he sent Sirius off to Azkaban without a trial. He was just so certain of 
his assumptions that he didn't see any point in letting them be 
questioned. I'm sure that is  part of the point Rowling is getting at: 
that many  more people do evil by carelessly assuming they are 
right than by deliberately setting out to do wrong. 

The very fact that we want Harry to be right so much shows us why it is
not time for him to be right yet. After all, which is the braver and more
interesting hero, the one who takes up the torch and strides confidently
to victory, or the one who takes up the torch, stumbles, and reaches the
finish line by the skin of his teeth?

Pippin