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

[Kelly Whiteman]

No: HPFGUIDX 161412

Magpie:
> Voldemort's Dark Knowledge is, imo, linked to immortality, which is 
also 
> connected to his Pureblood agenda.  

BonniDune:

I think Voldemort's Dark Knowledge is linked to power, not 
immortality. In one of the books he says something to the effect 
that "there is no good or bad, just power and the strength to use it."

As someone who has been victimized, Snape would be drawn to this 
concept of personal power.

For Voldemort himself, the ultimate power is immortality.  As a child 
he assumed that his mother could not have been a witch because she did 
not have the power to not die.

BonniDune