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

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170768

lizzyben04:
> Well, there's two levels here - the practical level & the symbolic 
> level. This is a literary text, so the imagery & symbolism have 
> meaning. And JKR clearly contrasts the images of how Sirius treated 
> an unconcious Snape (as a grosteque puppet, head lolling) and the 
> image of how Snape treated unconscious people (as patients & human 
> beings,in stretchers, in comfort.) This is the ONLY glimpse we have 
> of the real Snape, and it's quite telling. JKR didn't have to show 
> us this - but she did. It doesn't really matter where the 
> stretchers came from; what matters is how Snape treats vulnerable, 
> injured people. And in this instance, the only time we see the 
> unvarnished Snape, he treats the unconsious people with dignity & 
> care. 
<snip>

Dana: 
Right and him preparing to dragg the werewolf (who actually was still 
Lupin which Snape seemed to have forgotten) through the tunnel is not 
worse then how Sirius treats the man that just had threatened him to 
get his soul sucked out, before he ever would have a chance to talk 
to DD because Snape was totally beyond reason. A man he minutes later 
actually does safe the life off, before he would have truly ended up 
as the werewolf's next appetizer. 

And Snape doesn't even wonder how he managed to survive Lupin's 
transformation unscratched? Oh yes, of course he already knows 
because he HEARD Lupin tell Harry how James and Sirius were such 
large animals that they could keep a werewolf in check. But it is not 
enough for Snape to even consider that Sirius indeed might be 
innocent because instead he tries to persuade Fudge to hurry up 
before anyone can change his or DD's mind or can even intervene. 

Snape brought everybody up to the castle because for one there where 
witnesses that could put him on the scene and therefore he did not 
have a choice. He could not leave them there and go back to the 
castle pretending nothing ever happened. Of course he doesn't even 
want too because he captured Sirius Black. Vengeance is sweet ... How 
I hoped I would be the one to catch you.. (PoA pg 264 UKed PB 
Chapter "The servant of Lord Voldemort". And now he has and he will 
not let him get a way and he wants to be rewared for it. He wants to 
go into history as the one that captured Sirius Black. The one that 
tried to kill him at age 16. Hope DD will not make difficulties. The 
kiss will be preformed immediately? Let's get ride of him before the 
truth comes out or otherwise I will never get a way with it. 

And let's see oh it does happen. Sirius never get's a chance to live 
as a free man before he died and Snape did get a way with it at least 
according to his own claim he did. And I have not seen anything that 
proves he was lying. Yes, that claim was really treating the death 
and the innocent with dignity. It remains to be seen if that was the 
only part of the TRUE Snape we saw in the enite series because I'm 
pretty sure that the Snape losing it for not getting his way and when 
he was called a coward comes far closer to the TRUE Snape then you 
ever would expect. 

But late's wait and see as we will be put out of our misery soon 
enough. 

JMHO

Dana