[HPforGrownups] Re: DDM!Snape & the UV

[rebecca]

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> SSSusan:
> Unless that friend is commanding you to take that very action.  That's
> the point many of us DDM!Snapers are trying to make: that we believe
> that DD asked or commanded Snape to kill him.  It's kind of hard to
> argue what's "better" when our read of the scene includes such an order
> from DD.  Many don't believe DD would ever do such a thing.  Many
> others don't believe DD would hesitate to sacrifice himself if he felt
> the situation would require it/things would be better in the end if he
> did.
>
> We shall, of course, see in Book 7.
>
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

Rebecca:

Uh, my name is Rebecca and I am addicted to Severus Snape 
discussions....ooops, wrong list. ;)

Fellow HP citizens, you folks are not helping me get over my admitted 
addiction to Snape. I'm joining a support group - who's with me? Come on, 
raise your hands, you know who you are. ;)

I have an entirely different take on this, and I expect people will throw 
firewhiskey bottles at me for it. Please do not light them on fire this time 
before throwing - I prefer drinking them, thankyouverymuch. :)

Let's look at this a different, albeit probably not popular, way: what if 
Dumbledore didn't command anything and Snape recognized, either intuitively 
or by Legilimens, Dumbledore was almost DOA when he got there, or was at 
that time in for a painful, torturous death or other fate by the potion he 
drank or for the injury sustained to his hand earlier? I mean, DD himself 
says that the potion was "no health drink"  and that he "came back, after a 
fashion." It's a possibility he was doomed, based on his words, regardless 
of the other considerations about Snape and his motivations.

Perhaps Snape was or wasn't asked by DD, and I'm not sure that matters if 
you look at a "bigger" picture.  We know that JKR has seen a close family 
member, her mother, live and die thru a slow, debilitating disease which 
culminated in death  - what person wouldn't at some time think even 
fleetingly for that pain and suffering over a long period of time and 
escalating towards the end to go away for the person they loved? How 
helpless it is to watch this happen to a loved one and know there's nothing 
you can do? It's not out of the realm of possibility that something as 
painful and conflicted as this might make its way into her writing.

If you think about it that way, the debate is no longer about about what DD 
did or didn't do, or what Snape did.  The question and discussion could be 
if you knew someone was suffering, in pain, and was going to die a terrible 
death in the short term, would you end their suffering? Would you even for a 
moment think about it, whether you did it or not? Would it be the right, but 
not easy, thing to do? And heaven forbid that the person afflicted should 
ask you to do it? Maybe even demand it? Some may say yes, some may say no, 
some may not have any answer at all.  Some might call it mercy and humane, 
and others murder and reprehensible. But that's the point, isn't it?

None of this is out of the realm of possibility anymore than Snape just 
simply murdering DD and being a traitor. The problem, understandably, is 
that in JKR's desire to keep the mystery in her series until the end, we 
don't have enough detail to tell us what happened one way or the other.

I'm with Susan - waitin' for Book 7 ;)

Rebecca, already in Snape rehab and ready to catch those bottles with 
fireproof mitts just in case....