Excusing Snape of any responsibility ( was Re: Nitwit? - Remus John Lupin)

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> 
> Betsy Hp:
> The problem I have with this sort of argument (and it's a very 
> popular one for the Prank, unfortunately) is that it suggests that 
> the only person with any sort of personal responsibility in this 
> scenario is Snape.  Now, I'm a Snape fan, but even I have trouble 
> giving him a stronger moral or ethical sense and a greater 
> intelligence than Sirius.
> 
> Because honestly, I doubt James was motivated totally by the urge 
to 
> protect Snape (though I do suspect James realized that Snape's 
actual 
> *life* was in danger, while that never seemed to occur to 
Sirius).  I 
> suspect James was also motivated to protect Sirius from the 
> consequences of Sirius's actions.  Actions that would have 
probably 
> landed Sirius in Azkaban.  (Oh, and Lupin too, of course.)
> 
> I do think Snape was responsible for his own lack of caution.  But 
> shouldn't Sirius have some responsibility here too?  And if the 
> feeling is that Snape dying would have been just desserts 
(sneaking 
> around to find out what fellow students are up to is something 
only 
> *Gryffindors* are allowed to do <eg>), then a sixteen year old 
Sirius 
> spending the rest of his life in Azkaban for a crime he was 
actually 
> guilty for is also Sirius's just desserts.
> 
> Personally, I think both boys were in over their heads, and more 
than 
> one innocent life was saved that night.  Yay Prongs!  Um, again! 
Only 
> earlier!
> 
> Betsy Hp (loves Snape, and loves the amount of emotion Snape can 
> raise in people)
>


Alla:

May I just say something? I think this one would be best to reply 
to, even though I am sort of talking about  the thread in general, 
because I saw at least one person referring to my and Dana's 
arguments together and I am going to differentiate between myself 
and Dana's on this point for sure, even though I agree and support a 
great deal of her arguments :)


There is absolutely no way I would say that Snape deserved to die if 
the only thing he did was to sneak on Marauders trying to get them 
expelled. NO, just no. If there is nothing else to be discovered, 
then Snape and Sirius responsibility in Prank night just cannot be 
compared IMO. Snape may be guilty in sneaking on them, but Sirius is 
guilty in reckless idiocy that could have lead to Snape death.


Now I also believe very strongly that sneaking on Marauders is so 
very incomplete list of Snape offenses and we will learn that he was 
**at least** as guilty as Sirius that night, but if we learn nothing 
new, well, then hey, Sirius is not perfect, big deal, lol.

I mean, personally I of course believe that at least three 
good "people" of Potterverse would have had much longer life 
expectancy if Snape would have dropped dead in his teens, and one 
good "kid" would have had much happier home life, but there is no 
way I would say Snape deserved to die and of course then there would 
had been no story, hehe.

JMO,
Alla