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

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> 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.


Potioncat:

Oh, my.

Oh, dear.

To be honest, no argument, no counter-post has ever left me as 
dumbstruck as that one. 

Good point though.  ;-)

Somewhere in your words must have been the counter-curse to the 
Obliviate that had wiped that movie from my mind.

But, no that's not what I was thinking. JKR went out of her way to make 
Snape's healing Draco a very touching, very important moment. It can't 
be a coincidence that the method is simlar to the phoenix singing. If 
this was just a curse/counter-curse Snape could have waved his wand--or 
if it was business as usual we would have seen Madam Pomfrey singing to 
her patients. This was very special magic. So it's important that Snape 
is a healer if not a Healer. But how do you reconcile Healer/Dark Arts 
or Halfblood/Death Eater? 

Autopsies used to be outlawed. We have nice horror stories of doctors 
buying corpses--no questions asked--to advance their medical knowledge. 
Now it's a very acceptable tool. I'm just wondering if Snape was drawn 
to the Dark Arts to find his own sort of glory. Even now, some doctors 
are seeking glory by stamping out disease. Maybe Snape started out 
interested in Dark Arts, and moved into creating counter-curses. Or 
maybe he came back to "our" side and felt a need to redeem himself by 
creating cures for the sort Dark Magic he'd seen done.

If this is the way JKR is going, I think she had this written (in her 
head at least) before the movie came out. Now, could someone please 
Obliviate the movie from my mind--careful though, leave everything else.