Snape, Apologies, and Redemption--Lupin vs. DD

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 152639

> Alla:
>
> > Mine goes something like that - Snape joined
> > the gang of racists, torturers and murderers.
> > EVERYBODY in that gang whom we know of is guilty
> > of making people die at one point of their lifes.
>
> > SO, it is not that Snape is Guilty by association
>
> houyhnhnm:
>
> That *is* guilt by association.

Alla:

Um, sure, the way you snipped it, it looks like it. Let me try again.

I do NOT blame Snape for the murders other DE committed, I am just
saying that it makes no sense that Snape did NOT commit murders,
because that is what DE do - they kill and torture and poison
people, no?

It is canon based speculation of course, but to me that makes sense.

I am saying that despite the fact that we do not see Snape
committing muders in his DE days, it does not make sense to me that
he did not do it.

I don't see a REASON for him not to. Or to be more precise I don't
see a reason for Voldemort to reliving him of usual DE duties.

So, how is it guilt by association, if I am simply speculating that
Snape committed murders of his own, which we simply do not know
about yet?




> houyhnhnm:
<SNIP>
> Snape is a sympathetic character for me, not because he is not
> responsible for what happened during VWI, but because he alone 
appears
> to own the responsibility for his actions.  The others never do.

Alla:

Where does Snape own responsibility for his actions? Instead of 
going to Azkaban to pay his dues for his DE days, he gets a nice job 
of Hogwarts professor and Dumbledore's protection.

Instead of humble apology to Harry for playing part in his parents' 
deaths, he well .... treats Harry badly ( that is me understating 
things a lot)

 Instead of getting caught for Dumbledore's murder....

Sorry, I am yet to see Snape take ANY kind of responsibility for his 
actions. 

JMO,

Alla