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

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 161415

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:
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> Magpie:
> I phrased it badly.  Basically I do think that Snape has a thirst 
for 
> knowledge based on what we've seen about him, but I don't think his 
reasons 
> for joining the DEs are very different from those others.  I think 
there's a 
> common fanfic impulse to separate Snape as much as possible from 
anything 
> unattractive about DEs, and often this is done by starting with the 
idea 
> that Snape wasn't attracted to the DEs for anything violent, 
destructive or 
> racist, but because Voldemort offered him a chance to find 
knowledge. I 
> don't think Snape's motives for joining the DEs were noble, though 
his 
> reasons for leaving them could have been.

Quick_Silver: 
But it isn't just a fanfic impulse I'd say, Bella charges Snape with 
slithering out of action during Spinner's End. So I get the 
impression from the books that we're supposed to view Snape and his 
relationship with the violence, racism, and destruction of the Death 
Eaters as being a strained relationship perhaps? However at the same 
time during the end of HBP the Death Eaters present, including 
Greyback, seemed to be cowed by Snape's mere presence.

Quick_Silver