Nice vs. Good - Compassion

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 153126

> Lanval:
> Certainly. I don't think he meant to take Sirius and Lupin straight 
> to the dementors. He needed to do it legally.  And he knew that once 
> he brought him back to the castle to hand him over to Fudge, the 
> dementors would be called.
> 
> Scholastic Hb Ed, p.416:
> 
> "'...only hope Dumbledore's not going to make difficulties,' Snape 
> was saying. 'The Kiss will be performed immediately?'"
> 
> Nice.

Leslie41:  

Nope.  Not "nice".  Snape did what he was supposed to do.  You are 
still illogically hanging on to the unsupportable idea that Snape 
should have on his own recognizance and quite illegally FREED Sirius 
Black, which was, again, something that EVEN DUMBLEDORE would not do.

Look how Dumbledore does not EVER get directly involved with the 
freeing of Sirius Black.  Does not attempt to defend him to the 
minister.  Does not use the time turner himself.  

You know, it occurs to me that if Dumbledore really wanted to see to 
it that Sirius Black was freed, he would have tended to things himself 
instead of sending to adolescents into a dangerous situation to do it.

Why didn't he?

He doesn't because like Snape he is following the rules and doing what 
he is supposed to do.

And what he is "supposed" to do does not include freeing the Wizarding 
World's equivalent of Charlie Manson.  

Now if you want to say that Snape was looking forward to Sirius 
getting a kiss from the dementor, it would be hard to disagree with 
that.  But who can blame him, considering?  Sirius Black is is sworn 
enemy, who from Snape's perspective, tried to murder *him* and isn't 
sorry.  

Throughout the entire episode there is nothing you can fault as to his 
actions.