Whose side is Snape on, anyway?

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 149112

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kristin Hessenauer 
<tropicwhale at ...> wrote:
>
> unlikely2:
> 
> >> <snip> Can I suggest another reason why I think that Snape is 
good?
> 
> When Harry nearly kills Draco, Snape saves him and it is the 
intimate 
> manner of his doing so that I find interesting. Singing. Not a 
potion 
> but something from and of himself. And it is the cure for his own 
> damaging spell. It is this act that the sorrowful song of the 
phoenix 
> brings to my mind. <snip> <<
> 
>    
>   I've never considered that as an option, it is interesting, and 
> singing is how Fawkes healed so why not Snape as well. In Celtic 
and 
> other mythologies "chants" are used to dregged up power and 'stop' 
> death. Although, one must consider why Snape created 
the "Sectumsempra" 
> spell to begin with..."use on enemies" the note said so who was 
the 
> spell meant for?
>    
>   _Tropic_

Sue here:

I suspect Sectumsempra is the sort of spell you'd expect from the 
young Snape we saw in OOP, the one with few friends and probably no 
real ones, despite the gang of Slytherins he hangs out with. He's a 
loner, and probably one who resents his fellow-students. Unlike most 
of us, who just fantasise about revenge, he is bright enough to be 
able to do it - or maybe he came up with it and never really used 
it ... unless that was the spell he was starting on James 
in "Snape's Worst Memory"? But it doesn't mean he would use it as an 
adult.
>