Who dies?/Evil Snape

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 154426

 


>  Julie,  who's never seen evidence of Snape clinging to his joyless  
life 
> no matter the cost as Voldemort and Wormtail are wont  to  do.

Alla:

He did NOT want to go to Azkaban, where  people go mad with grief and 
die, didn't he?

To me that means that  Snape does cling to his life and dearly so.



Julie again:
I don't know that you die when you go to Azkaban. Maybe some do
but most seem to live on within their insanity and grief. No, Snape
didn't want to go to Azkaban (who would?!) but it's a very different
prospect than merely dying, and many would consider dying the
preferable alternative. 
 
Let's also remember that Snape faced that choice some 15 years
prior to HBP. He's lived a lot of life since then, and most of it  hasn't
been a lot of fun, if we assume he's been beholden to DD, the life
debt to James, his own guilty conscience, and whatever else. Who's
to say a 37 year old Snape wouldn't be much more willing to accept
death than a 22 year old Snape? 
 
Finally, we are talking about two very different circumstances. 22
year old Snape wasn't affecting anyone else's life adversely by
escaping imprisonment in Azkaban. He was only affecting his life
positively. It's very different 15 years later when his survival means 
the death of the one man who has truly cared for and trusted  him.
Perhaps the only person he really loves, as a father figure and  a
mentor. So the choice to accept DD's offer (whatever it was) and
avoid Azkaban, and the choice to kill DD so he could live are  two
very unrelated decisions.
 
Julie, still convinced Snape would have readily given up his life  rather
than take Dumbledore's, if it hadn't meant Harry and Draco likely 
dying with him


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