[HPforGrownups] Re: DH rambles and crows eating _ LOVEd this book

[dkewpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 172404


                              > Alla:

 > 

 > Oh he wanted **Lily's son** to live all right, but we hear him loud 

 > and clear whne he responds to DD IMO,that still after all these years 

 > he does not give a d*mn about Harry as a person and him wanting Lily 

 > son to live is for me perfectly in line with his obsession over Lily 

 > and anything that looks like her.

 

leslie:
 No, he doesn't give a damn about Harry as a person.  Still, he does the 

 right thing.  That's Snape all over.  And he doesn't just do it for 

 Lily's sake.  Because Snape has changed.  Fred loses an ear because 

 Snape saves Lupin, for example, whom he cares less for than Harry.  

 Snape regrets having to witness the deaths of people (such as Charity) 

 that he, because of his circumstances as a double agent) cannot save.

 

 Can you give him credit for something, just one thing, without tearing 

 him down and impugning his reasons for doing it?  

 

 The man did help to save the world, after all.      

 

 


me:

Leslie, EXACTLY! 
And Snape doesn't care for fame/recognitions/order of merlins or whatever superficial things that haters used to always bashed Snape for either.
In fact, Snape does the right thing and risk his life knowing he gets NOTHING in return, and when i say nothing I really mean NOTHING. And he doesn't mind that as that's his choice for atonement.  Not only that,  he is distrusted by both sides in the war (order memebers don't really trust him nor the DE), he's able to confide only in Dumbledore. The real price he paid was not dying, but in living a lonely and painful life. I like what someone said: being good is hard enough; how much harder it must be to be good, when everyone around you assumes you are evil.

And I still think Snape does care about Harry as a person in a certain degree, otherwise Dumbledore wouldn't tease him about it.


Joan