Snape parallels

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 172876

Does anyone else see a similar pattern in Snape and Dumbledore, both
obsessed with past guilt (having caused or contributed to the death of
someone they loved)? I wonder if the tear in Dumbledore's eye when he
sees Snape's Patronus (or recognizes its significance--how can he not
have seen it?) is because he sees a similarity between his own loss of
Ariana and Snape's of Lily. Neither can get past it. Dumbledore
stupidly forgets that the Peverell ring is a Horcrux as well as a
Hallow in his eagerness to see her again; he agonizes over her death
in the HBP cave scene, which apparently shows Grindelwald torturing
Aberforth and Ariana ("them") before Aberforth rebels and starts
duelling. (Surely, it was Grindelwald who cast the curse that killed
Arizna. Albus would know if he'd cast one and Aberforth simply
wouldn't have done it.)

The other parallel is a small scen whose relevance at least one poster
has questioned, the brief history of the Grey Lady and the Bloody
Baron. I actually enjoyed that bit of trivia in the midst of turmoil,
but it may have served a thematic purpose as well. the Bloody Baron
(another Slytherin) murdered the woman he loved and then killed
himself. Severus Snape contributed to the death of the woman he loved
and wanted to die when his efforts to save her failed, but after DD
asks him what good that would do, he dedicates his life to making sure
that she didn't die in vain.

Carol, who thinks that all Severus Snape ever wanted was love and
acceptance or at least a bit of recognition