Tobias & The Angel

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 167468

> > Goddlefrood:

> > Severus does not come across as a man who feels remorse, it
seemed more like a cooked up story to me :)

> zgirnius:
> Do you have an explanation for the scene in "Flight of the 
Prince" in which Snape is described as being in pain like the 
dog trapped in the burning house consistent with the Angel 
theory? 

Goddlefrood:

First, I'll insert the relevant portion:

'"DON'T -" screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented,
inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling
dog stuck in the burning house behind them, "- CALL ME A COWARD!"'

p. 564 - Bloomsbury Hardback Edition

If it is accepted that Severus is DDM, which, in case anyone has 
not got this, I do not agree with, then this scene is relatively
easy to reconcile with Snape not being overtly remorseful.

Severus has, moments before, killed the man he had been working
for, by my calculation of when Snape could have become DDM, 
for a little over 20 years by this point. He had taken many risks 
on his own account and on account of the Order with little if any 
praise whatsoever from other Order members, excluding the DD 
brothers. I say this because of my earlier statement that if 
Snape is to be DDM from the point of the aftermath of the prank, 
as I theorise, then Aberforth will be our informant.

Severus, in his own mind, has done the single most courageous act
of his life by killing Dumbledore, his friend and mentor. Perhaps 
the only man who had ever understood him as deeply as he himself
did and does.

Snape is now behind enemy lines, from his perspective, and he has
never been one to take criticism easily, especially from the son
of a man he hated. Severus has never shown any great fondness for
Harry either, and, therefore, to be called a coward by this
pestilential little blit would cause him considerable anger. It
does not equate to remorse particularly, and I believe the 
foregoing is adequate explanation :).

IOW not so very different from his expressions as noted in The 
Shrieking Shack back in PoA, and indeed his method of address 
during the course of the conversation between he and his old
friends Sirius, Remus and HRH ;)

Will this do?

Goddlefrood