[HPforGrownups] Snape brewing Wolfsbane. WAS:Re: Snape, Apologies, and Redemption--Lupin vs. DD

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 152659


--- dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alla:
> 
> That's ALL that counts? Certainly not to me, because
>  what if dear 
> Snape was brewing this potion under direct orders
> from Dumbledore, 
> and the penalty would be, oh, I don't know, let's
> say - do it or 
> lose your job. In this little speculation I see
> absolutely nothing 
> that Remus should be grateful to Snape for, but only
> to Dumbledore.
> 

I could never believe in blackmailing Dumbledore, but
even assuming that's possible...
Do doctors like all of the patients they treat? Do
they do it out of goodness of their hearts? No, they
are doing it under direct orders of hospital manager,
under the threat of losing their income. :-) Evil,
evil people. I'll never be grateful to any one of them
again, only to the people who order them around.

I see it as a point in Snape's favour - that he is
capable of doing what's necessary for the person that
he clearly dislikes.
Lily had it in her - she was doing her Prefect duty
even though she didn't care for Snape at all. (And
dear Remus didn't, but he is so nice that we'll
forgive him).
I understand that lots of people don't see this
capability to separate feelings and actions as a
positive quality, they see it as duplicity. Usually
these people admire straighforward, honest, Gryffindor
"what I think is what I say and do" attitude. The one
that got Sirius so far with Kreacher.

Irene

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