Nice vs. Good - Compassion

[lanval1015]

No: HPFGUIDX 153144

> > Lanval:
> <SNIP>
> > Btw, how do you (and others who believe that Snape lives by the 
> code 
> > of Must-Keep-Harry-Safe) deal with the fact that both in CoS and 
> PoA 
> > he tries to have Harry expelled? How's that for the future of the 
> > WW, to kick the Chosen One out into the world without a magical 
> > education?
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hehe. I know the answer. Don't you get it, he was just pretending. 
> You know, messing with Harry's mind. He does not really want him 
> expelled. He just complains to DD all the time. :)
>


Lanval:
:) I should probably check the other books too. But in CoS he 
definitely tried to get both Harry and Ron expelled for the flying 
car episode. At the end of PoA, Harry, still dazed and confused, 
hears Snape say the following to Fudge in the Hospital Wing: "And yet-
-is it good for him to be given so much special treatment? 
Personally, I try and treat him like any other student (ROTFL!). And 
any other student would be suspended -- at the very least -- for 
leading his friends into such danger. ..."

Now I'm not sure if suspended here is to mean expelled? I wasn't 
aware Hogwarts did 'suspension', the way schools do it in the RW.... 
three to ten days, whatever. How would that be handled in a boarding 
school?  So it's not entirely clear whether Snape is trying to get 
Harry kicked out of school here.

> Alla:
> <SNIP>
> I totally think that Snape would have much preferred Sirius to be 
> killed legally, but also don't think that it shows Snape kindness 
ar 
> all.
> 
> 

Lanval:
We are in perfect agreement then. :)

A note concerning my last post: I did a little research and was very 
surprised to learn that failure/refusal to give aid is NOT an offense 
in some countries. It is where I grew up, so I never bothered to 
check. My bad, as my son would say.

However, from a personal ethical standpoint, Snape not saving Draco, 
and watching him die, in HBP, would have been a terrible crime. There 
was no danger to his own life, and he knew precisely what to do.