Snape's the Rescuer - Really?/Justice to Snape/ some russian history

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No: HPFGUIDX 170797

> Magpie:
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> I guess I just have the opposite problem. I can completely 
understand not
> thinking that *Snape* putting people on stretchers is about Snape 
healing,
> because we know what Snape's like. But it still seems like even to 
get
> there you have to recognize that stretchers etc. are associated 
with
> hospitals and paramedics etc. It doesn't have to make the person a 
healer
> necessarily. As I said, I can imagine Lupin or Sirius doing the 
same thing,
> and if they did in that scene I'd think of them acting as a person 
taking
> care of the injured, even if the person on the stretcher was Snape 
and
> Sirius was the one levitating him.
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Alla:

Stretchers **by itself** are associated with hospitals and 
paramedics, most definitely. Stretchers in Snape's hands levitating 
Sirius to the dementors - are not associated with anything healing 
in my mind in any way, shape or form.

Okay, let me try again to explain my way of thinking and then I will 
probably bow out, I think I tried more than hard to explain myself.

I just had the wierdest idea, which may at first sound completely 
off topic, but bear with me and I will get back to Potterverse just 
fine at the end.

 Please take a look at this link in wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_Uprising.


I am not sure how familiar you are with russian history or russian 
paintings, or both, so I apologise if you know all that.

So Streltsy rebelled against Peter the Great and it did not end well 
for them, poor guys :(

A lot of them were executed as article says, so please take a 
careful at the painting by Surikov in the article, I am pretty sure 
you can see the better reproduction online somewhere else.

Do you see how another soldier supports one of the condemned 
soldiers and leads him to the execution?

Long time ago I remember reading about that painting and the writer 
was thinking that this projects the image of brotherhood - one 
soldier supports another wounded soldier.

And I remember screaming at the book - WHAT brotherhood?

This soldier leads another one to death, that's not how you treat 
your brother to me.

Even though ordinarily one soldier supporting his hurt comrade 
normally is associated with the brotherhood, sure, to me **not** in 
this situation at all. Why? Because I know the end result and I 
cannot separate them at all. This to me is hypocrisy, not 
brotherhood.

Same thing here. I cannot separate in my mind the image of the 
stretchers and where Snape is taking Sirius, so I cannot have any 
healing associations in my mind, because I know the end result - 
horrible death of the soul. Does that make sense to you?

Alla.


 
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