Snape's the Rescuer - Really?/Justice to Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 170746

> Magpie:
> But I'm not making a case for Snape being nice or saying what his 
> motivations are. I'm saying putting people on stretchers=image of 
> someone taking care of people. It's what paramedics do in our 
world. 
> I know everyone--especially Harry--can come up with a thousand 
> reasons why Snape doesn't really care about any of them and wants 
> them all dead, and I know it's easy enough to have theories about 
> how what Snape wants for Sirius isn't "justice" even on his own 
> terms, but I'm talking about the image the author put in there. 
> <SNIP>

Alla:

Yes, I understand that you are talking about the image of Snape as 
healer in this scene and nothing more. And I am saying that I 
inprepret this **image** drastically different from you - as image of 
practical, hypocritical bastard, who is concerned how Dumbledore and 
authorities would see him when he comes back to the castle with 
**murderer** on stretchers.

I guess I cannot see paramedics association because I know that 
paramedics deliver wounded, sick people to the hospital, not to the 
execution.


Magpie: 
> To use another example, in GoF Peter is being mothering to 
> Voldemort. Voldemort's a baby that he's taking care of. Of course 
we 
> know that their relationship is actually weirder and more abusive 
> and everything else, but JKR chose to use that imagery, a parody of 
> mother and child. If she had a problem with Voldemort being 
> associated with the infantile, she wouldn't have used it.

Alla:

Sure, good example. Here we interpret images in the same way.



 
> Magpie:
> It's not about being practical--this isn't real life. The author 
has 
> chosen to show Snape in the role of "healer" (which is not the same 
> as making him a healer in terms of giving him a title or a degree) 
a 
> lot. I don't think she chooses those images lightly.
<SNIP>


Alla:

How do you know that this is not about being practical? Maybe the 
reason why author chose this **image** is to show precisely that - 
Snape's practical side, no?

JMO,

Alla