Closure for Harry & Snape

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 174528

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>

 
> Let's assume the story had played out differently. Let's
> assume that Voldemort had allowed Snape to go and 
> capture Harry. OK, now Snape has captured Harry and
> he begins talking rapidly...I love your mother, she 
> was my best friend ...you have to willingly let 
> Voldemort kill you, offering no resistance of any
> kind...etc.... Do you really think Harry would buy
> that? Oh, sure, he would think, I just lay down
> and die for Voldemort and everything will be fine --
> NOT!

Sue here:

I agree with this. It's just easier and works better to use the Pensieve than having Snape try 
desperately to tell Harry the truth. "Harry, would you PLEASE stop trying to Stun me? We 
have to talk!" A bit like Darth Vader and Luke in that scene in The Empire Strikes Back, and 
it didn't help that Vader had to cut Luke's hand off... :-)


>> bboyminn:
> 

> 
> > >
> > Harry could have perhaps had a  conversation with him
> > (in his portrait) after he'd seen all of Snape's 
> > memories.
> > 
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> For this to work, it would have to occur /after/ Harry
> found out he had to die at Voldemort's hand. A long
> heart-to-heart at that moment would have seemed very
> anti-climatic. It is enough that Harry continues to
> honor Snape and recognize his effort, even to the 
> opoint of naming one of his children after Snape. It
> that doesn't constitute reconciliation, I don't know
> what does.

Sue:

Again, I agree. I have now just about read the book twice. I got it for reviewing and had to 
get it finished very quickly the first time, to send my review in on time, but now, re-
reading it at my own pace. I have been able to re-think. My first thought was, "Oh, Snape's 
death wasn't as dramatic as I'd expected, I thought he was going to save Harry or 
something, and be redeemed..." Thing is, for THAT to work, he would have had to be 
working for Voldemort. He wasn't, though. He had, in fact, been risking his life for Harry, 
or at least for the good guys, for sixteen years, and had been redeemed long ago. The 
reconciliation by Harry naming one of his kids for Snape is a lot more subtle than simply 
having him talk to a portrait would have been. And personally, I think the portrait would 
have told him to get lost anyway! ;-)
> 
> Got to run.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn
>