Prank and various responsibilities WAS: Re: Marietta

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 169633

> Dana:
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> Snape (and all his fans) always seems to forget his own 
> responsibilities in the actions he takes and the prank as far as we 
> know was nothing more then Sirius telling Snape how to get to Lupin 
> and Snape eagerness to get the Marauders expelled (so before the 
> prank materialized) was what made him go after Lupin. No one made 
> Snape act on this information then Snape himself and therefore if he 
> had gotten killed then it was indeed his own fault. James prevented 
> it but Snape ran to DD anyway hoping that his story was enough to get 
> all the Marauders out of his hair once and for all.  Besides it is 
> only Snape that stated that the Marauders played a trick on him, 
> Lupin doesn't say Snape was tricked into following him just that 
> Sirius thought it amusing to tell Snape how to get there. He actually 
> states "of course Snape would tried it", indicating to me 
> specifically that it was Snape's own choice to go there. 
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Alla:

What do Snape fans have to do with this argument? No, really, aren't we 
discussing fictional character of Snape and not his fans?


Moving on to fictional character of Snape, I agree with you that unless 
Snape was bound and gagged and/or put under Imperio ( and that is 
certainly possible), **nobody** forced him to go there and he certainly 
has to be responsible for his own action.

But unless we will learn that Snape is implicated in that night in more 
sinister way, and as you know, I am a big fan of speculation that Snape 
learned who Remus was before that night and went there at least 
partially for a reason of killing werewolf and showing everybody how 
great he is in Dark Arts, unless we learn that, I still say that Snape 
did not deserve to die. I mean with the hindsight within the story, 
sure, I maintain a lot of people would have benefitted if Snape dropped 
dead, but not based on that point in time.

He and only he is responsible for his own curiosity, but this 
responsibility to me does not rise to the level of being dead for his 
curiosity.

JMO,

Alla