Nightingale!Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 154272

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
>
> So I just finished Hans Christian Andersen's short story, 'The 
Nightingale'.
> 
> The plot gist:

<go UPTHREAD to read it, or even better - go get the book and read 
it :) Amasingly beatiful story>
> It is also notable that three of the characters in the short story 
are
> reminded of something loved when they hear the song.
> 
> The Nightingale is remarkably plain
> ( for picture, see: pbc.codehog.co.uk/ report/nightingale.html )
> The Nightingale heals with song.
> The Nightingale says, more or less, that it will act the spy.
> 
> 
> Now to Snape.
> Though Snape has not been referred to as plain, what's remarkable 
is that
> the reader expects certain actions from Snape's character.  I'm 
going to go
> out on a limb and say that none of us imagined Snape singing 
someone to
> strength and health.
> 
> Snape and Draco in the bathroom echos Fawkes and Harry in the 
Chamber .  But
> how silly, let alone inappropriate,  would it look for Snape to 
bend over
> Draco while squeezing out a tear?  Having Snape chant-sing is a 
much more
> powerful image.
> 
> Bellatrix said that you have to mean an Unforgivable, that you 
have to
> really want to cause the curse, that you have to enjoy it.  She 
also said an
> Unforgivable cast in righteous anger wouldn't hurt her for long.
> 
> There's something about Snape's song.  It seems to be Light 
Magic.  <SNIP> 
There's something about that song.
> 
> Phoenix.  Nightingale.  Snape.


Alla:

Oh, Kemper. It is so strange that you mention this story. It was one 
of the most favorite stories of my childhood, you know.

I also like that you call it short story. I had Andersen book 
as "fairy tales" collections, but even though they sometimes 
resembled fairy tales, I always thought that they were a bit too sad 
to be called ones.

I am not sure, what they really are? Parables? Just short stories?

In any event, no, I cannot compare Nightingale with Snape, I mean, 
if we are to do comparisons, shouldn't the comparison work well, not 
only on Nightingale, but on the Emperor side and it seems to be that 
Emperor does not remotely resemble Draco, but more of Dumbledore, 
kind of sort of? As a figure of power?

And while Nightingale nurses Emperor to health, Snape well doesn't?

If you are comparing Nightingale to Snape based only on the song, 
well, I guess if you can say that Nightingale brought the misery 
upon the emperor himself by leaving and then came to treat him ( 
still don't see Nightingale deliberately doing it), and Snape does 
not just heals dark curse, he heals the Dark curse invented by him. 
Oh, the irony.

So, yes of course it can be pure Light magic of healing or it can be 
as Renee said self-preservation by Snape, developing cure, in case 
Snape dear accidentally cuts the wrong person.


Alla, who loves Nightingale too much to ever see Snape in it.