Healing Magic (wasRe: Prank question - Lupin wanted Snape DEAD

[Adesa]

No: HPFGUIDX 154301

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
>  
> > Pippin:
> 
> > Big Snip
> ...leaving Ron to suffer with his broken leg,
> > (and isn't it *interesting* that Lupin says he's not so good
> > with healing spells, now that we find out that Snape is) --
> 
> Potioncat:
> I think Snape's healing ability is a major part of who he is--
another 
> sort of contrast for our favorite baddie. I wonder if his 
motivation 
> for knowing Dark Arts as a young boy was to learn/invent cures for 
> them? It might also explain his joining the DEs. I'm sure LV was 
more 
> accepting of a little Dark Magic experimentation than others might 
have 
> been. To be honest, for the longest time I was sure that Agnes, the 
dog 
> faced witch was his mother.

Adesa:
Oh, Lord, please don't tell me this is a Darth Vader/Anakin thing. 
You think Snape joined V to learn how to heal someone he loved? OK, 
that would be fine (and I'd trust JKR to do a better job with it than 
George Lucas), but it's been *done*. And recently. I'd be *so* 
disappointed if that's the way JKR goes with it.