"Bad Snapers," Karma, and the End of Snape

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 175895

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
>

> 
> > I don't see Snape's death by Voldemort, by the Dark Arts, 
> > by a snake as being some sort of karmic justice at all.  I see it 
> as 
> > a willing sacrifice by Snape, as something he's knowingly risked 
> ever 
> > since he tried to save Lily. 
> 

I don't know that the fact that Snape's death at the hands of 
Voldemort was perfectly foreseeable has anything at all to do with it 
satisfying several karmic arcs.  Many fitting things are quite 
predictable and foreseeable -- that, in part, is why they are 
fitting.  Karmic arts have to do with a fitting price paid for a sin 
or set of sins.  Irony, which is what you may be speaking of, is 
often not foreseeable.  Now, irony can certainly be a part of karma, 
but the two things are very different.  I would say that Snape's 
death at the hands of Voldemort and by the Dark Arts is karmic and 
fitting, if not particularly ironic.  His death by Nagini, however, 
is much more ironic, but still karmic.  

I would agree with Zara that the backlash from Snape's decision to 
join the DEs, i.e. the death of Lily, is also karmic.  It is also 
bitterly ironic.  Once again, the two things go together in this 
instance, but they aren't the same thing.


Lupinlore, who finds the way JKR handled abusive Snapey-poo's death 
even more delightful the more he examines it