Snape Survey, Snapeity, Dumbledore's sacrifice

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 149181

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "richter_kuymal" <richter at ...> 
wrote a lot about what Snape should or could have done that fateful 
night, and this:
  
> PAR: who thinks the look of hate on Snape's face is exactly what it 
> appears to be.   

Hickengruendler:

I wrote a pretty long post as an answer to yours, but then I 
accidentily hit the back button without saving anything. I don't have 
the energy to write something to every point again. Generally, I found 
most of your examples of what Snape should have done very far fetched. 
Particularly the idea of him taking out four Death Eaters at once. Yes, 
they were not aiming at him, but that surely would have changed once he 
had taken out the first one. Also, I suppose a "Levicorpus" spell is 
much slower, therefore the Death Eaters very likely would have 
recognized the difference between it and Snape smashing Albus from the 
tower. And maybe Dumbledore simply expected Snape to be in his rooms 
because there was a high possibility that Snape didn't know anything. 
Like 95% percent of the school. Therefore I don't think there's any 
proof that Dumbledore ordered Snape to stay to in his room until he 
gets orders to do otherwise. It might be possible, but there's no 
reason to treat it as a fact.

But I do want to talk a bit more about the part I quoted above, namely 
the expression of hatred. The question I have for everybody, who 
thinks, that this hatred his directly aimed against Dumbledore as a 
person: Why should Snape feel this way? Or why should JKR write it this 
way? Dumbledore was kind to Snape, gave him a second chance, pretty 
much ignored or at least understood his nasty temper. Dumbledore showed 
faith in Snape when nobody else did. I cannot see the reason, why an 
evil (as in loyal to Voldemort or only loyal to himself) Snape should 
hate Dumbledore. A short sneer: "Well, fooled you all this years", or a 
short look, that might say the same. Or maybe even a very short guilty 
conscience, which he tried to surpress. Yes, all of that would be 
plausible reasons. But hatred? Why? This doesn't seem logical to me. I 
find the idea that Snape either hated what he had to do or hated 
Dumbledore for asking him to do it much more plausible.

And it's not that it simply is JKR's style to have a villain show 
hatred without a reason, when he kills somebody. Did Voldemort hate 
James Potter or Frank Bryce? Did Wormtail hate Cedric Diggory? So for 
which reason should Snape hate Dumbledore, instead of simply secretly 
laughing about the old fool, if he were evil?

Hickengruendler