Dark Magic and Snape (was:Re: CHAPDISC: HBP24, Sectumsempra)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 161408

> Magpie:
>
<snip> Iow, I don't think that Voldemort is truly interested in 
anyone else's 
> immortality besides his own, definitely.  But I think the lure of 
the DEs 
> can still be immortality--just of the kind that I've read described 
as 
> fueling genocide in the real world.
> 
> So I more mean, as Betsy said, not that Snape saw Voldemort as a 
teacher who 
> would give him personally the secret to immortality, but that the 
> quasi-immortal talk of the DEs (purifying the race of Wizards, the 
strength 
> the group promised against enemies of true Wizards etc.) could be 
attractive 
> in itself. <snip>

a_svirn:
Oh, sorry I misunderstood what you were saying. I guess I got 
confused because you said earlier that "sometimes the idea of Snape 
being drawn by knowledge is
separated from Voldemort's Pureblood agenda when it's not". Yet if he 
was tempted by the usual pureblood claptrap then his motivation is 
not much different from, say,  McNair's or Grayback's. In which case, 
I'd say, we can definitely separate it from more "noble" thirst for 
knowledge. "Quasi-immortality" does not require any special 
knowledge – it's a pretty basic stuff about survival.