[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 161339

> k12listmomma
>> My thought of this was totally different: Snape's spell was
>> clearly Dark Magic. My thought was that he
>> was so quick to heal Draco himself is that he
>> wanted to hide the source of the spell, or at least, the very Dark
> nature of the spell. If word got out that the Prince was
>> Snape, and that he loved Dark
>> Magic, suspicion would have fallen on him all over again as being
> a faithful Death Eater in disguise. I think he healed Draco
>> himself not out of fulfillment of the Vow, or out of
>> compassion, but out of fear of someone
>> finding out that he was the inventor of new spells in Dark Magic
>> even from a young age. He was covering his own tracks.
>
> Magpie:
> What tracks?  Snape invented the spell when he was at Hogwarts and
> it's already known he became a DE after that.  It also appears to be
> commonly known he was up to his eyes in the DA at that age. He
> wasn't the one who cast the spell and there was still a witness to
> what the spell did. Also just because Snape's being the Prince was a
> mystery to Harry doesn't mean it was a big thing Snape was hiding--
> he might have destroyed the book if that were the case.

Maybe I didn't make my case clear. We know Snape is a double agent- helping 
Dumbledore, and leading the Dark Lord to think he's still loyal to him at 
the same time. Yes, it was widely known that Snape HAD BEEN a Death Eater, 
but it was NOT known to everyone that he was acting as a double agent since 
then. The official word to the "public" is that Snape turned good, period, 
that he had "forsaken" all that was loyal to Voldemort. I think the 
revelation of this book, and the spells that Snape developed, would have 
cast a new light on Snape, a new suspicion on Snape that maybe it was 
Snape's nature to be "dark", not merely that he was a follower of the Dark 
Lord. Thus, someone close to Snape might have watched his actions more 
carefully- something that he didn't need at a time when he was tailing 
Draco.

I see a vital difference between the cowards who quake in the Dark Lord's 
wake, fearing what he would do to their families, and thus served the Dark 
Lord out of fear, and those that loved what Voldemort was doing, and so 
served willingly and happily. Remember what Mad Eye Moody said- that there 
were many who merely claimed to be under the Imperious Curse when they did 
the Dark Lord's bidding, and then recanted when the Dark Lord fell? He said 
we don't know how many had merely "changed their minds", meaning that they 
had once made a willing choice to serve the big baddy. Clearly, the more 
dangerous ones were the folks that served Voldemort willingly, for those 
might be the folks who run back to Voldemort when the time was right, when 
he had more power again, if they weren't killed first (just as Draco's 
father did). A love of Dark Arts from a young childhood would be an 
indication, I think, that Snape's first term as a Death Eater was a willing 
service, and that would then be an argument for Evil!Snape, being that you 
could argue that his nature didn't change. It's just a rabbit trail on the 
Evil!Snape path, that's all. Or, an attempt by Rowling to make us wonder if 
Snape was evil from the word go, and still is, even if she intends to prove 
to us in the end that he isn't.

Shelley