Should Harry have saved Snape? (was: Could Harry have saved Snape?)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 178042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
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> I don't know what Harry could have done to help Snape and I don't 
know
> why Harry would even want to help Snape. For whatever reason Snape 
had
> done a very good job making certain Harry hated him. Snape did not
> have to treat Harry for 6 years like he was something he'd scraped 
off
> his shoe but he chouse to do so, he could have told Harry he loved 
his
> mother and explained why he killed Dumbledore but he told Harry
> nothing, and now he reaps the consequences of that.
> 
> Harry was looking at one Death Eater killing another Death Eater, 
and
> if it was me I'd be thinking "Good, one less Death Eater to worry
> about". Snape was determined that Harry not be his ally while he was
> alive, and he got his wish.  Dumbledore didn't seem to think it was 
a
> good idea that Harry knew nothing about the best side of Snape 
either,
> but Snape insisted.
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Alla:

Okay, I most certainly do NOT begrudge Harry for not saving Snape for 
all the reasons you so eloquently described.

Besides those reasons who says that Harry would have been succesful 
necessarily? The fact that curse backfired at the end no guarantee 
that it would have happened in the Shack, no?

So, yeah, I think Harry performed a public service to all future 
generations of Hogwarts children for not saving Snape.

Not that I think he could or that he did it deliberately ( just 
saying in general, not saying that anybody claims he did it 
deliberately), I think he was just shocked to witness another murder 
right in front of him and maybe he saw the Tower again, who knows.


BUT BUT BUT having said all that, I do think that it would have been 
nice to see Harry attempting to save Snape ( Please, but NOT saving 
him).

NOT for Snape definitely, but for Harry, would have been pleased to 
see his saving people thing manifest itself even if for person he 
hated ( justifiably so as far as I am concerned).

JMO,

Alla.