[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's the Rescuer - Really?/Justice to Snape

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 170691

Alla:

Okay, maybe you can explain this one to me, after all, even when we 
disagree I can often understand your POV. So, how is this scene is 
Snape caring for people?

I mean, certainly, if we saw Snape putting kids on the stretchers 
and no Black, absolutely, I will grant you that.

But Snape delivers Black to be kissed and to me to call it 
**caring** is just not that, you know?

Praising Snape for that? I mean, sure, if he truly thinks he 
delivers murderer, I understand, but to say that Snape **cares**?

Magpie:
I think the problem is the word "caring"--and I've been trying to think of
a different one, but I can't. Because Snape is being shown here "caring"
for people in terms of taking care of them--stretchers, hospital wing, etc.
But he doesn't "care for" them in terms of showing affection for them. For
Sirius, in particularly, he's bringing him in to justice, not mothering him.

There's of course plenty of ways to say that he "had to" do it--but JKR
didn't have to have him to it, regardless. It's just an image that I think
sticks in the mind a bit. It's just a visual image that goes along with a
lot of consistent images for Snape that go along with the scenes of him
being sarcastic and cruel. He's not being particularly nice here, but he's
not being cruel--even with Sirius, I don't think we can use the fact that
Sirius might be kissed against him. He's taking Sirius to the authorities.
It's not that he *cares* meaning that he's being affectionate, but he's
taking care of people in terms of putting them on stretchers and all.

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