High Noon for OFH!Snape

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 149576

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
> You know, it's a good thing no evil!Snapers around here have been
> saying they'd throw out all their child-abuse celebrating HP books 
and
> projectile-vomit if Snape turns out to be DDM, 'cause otherwise 
that
> would be really ironic.  Do I mean ironic?  I think I just mean
> 'funny'.  (note to self:  stop using 'ironic' when you just 
mean 'funny').

Well, that would be "throw out the child-abuse celebrating books if 
Snape isn't clearly punished," then "projectile vomit if some of the 
DDM theories come through."  The question of DDM really doesn't 
touch very directly on the question of child abuse and its 
punishment.  

Still, you are quite right that everyone is arguing from personal 
preference -- which is as it should be.  This isn't astrophysics and 
there aren't "Laws of Character Motion" to go with the laws of 
physical motion.  Ultimately this is all unavoidably and deeply 
subjective.  That's why the arguments are so very fierce.



> Now, this reminds me of LifeDebt!Snape.  Because one of the 
reasons I
> tend to dismiss it is that it has no effect on Harry.  Actually, 
the
> only slight effect would be another couple of pounds of pressure on
> the "I hate Snape" side, because it allows him to write off 
anything
> good Snape has done so far.  Which, strangely, seems to be it's
> principal attraction to Certain Parties!
> 

What do you mean by "write-off?"  Do you mean "give an explanation 
that doesn't include Snape really being a very decent individual 
under all of it," then I guess you are right.  Sorry, but at least 
IMO decent individuals don't abuse children.  Now, if you 
mean "write-off" in terms of "having no significance" I don't think 
that's necessarily the case.  For one thing we have no idea how Life 
Debts actually work.  A Snape who bears a life debt that is a 
magically binding obligation is one kind of character, whereas a 
Snape whose life debt is largely a matter of pride and bitterness is 
another.


Lupinlore, who thinks that Sydney is probably right about another 
thing, which is that JKR will likely reveal a Snape whose character 
and fate are ambivalent enough to draw in a working majority from 
all sides, although, like Nora, he would enjoy the chorus of howls 
if she does not