Headmaster for a day (was Prank WAS :Re: CHAPDISC: DH33, The Princ

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 184977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:

 The physical
> descriptions of the two men, both gaunt, with sickly complexions 
and
> deadened eyes, hint at the similarities in their situations. 
> 
> Sirius's deterioration at GP hints that even if Snape had lived to 
be
> reconciled with those who thought he had betrayed them,  he 
wouldn't
> really have recovered. 
> 


Leah: I'm not sure. Sirius has really swapped one prison for another 
in returning to his childhood home (anothe paralell as Snape still 
spends time at Spinners End). Sirius is trapped with the mother he 
thought he had escaped as a teenager.  If Sirius had been able to 
have Harry live with him, and reached an understanding with Kreacher 
over Regulus, things might have been different for him.

Had Snape lived and been cleared of all charges, I think he might 
have been able to make a fresh start, albeit it would have taken a 
while.  He would have had to find a new purpose, but perhaps the 
fact that Lily's son had after all remained alive would have helped 
him to let go. He has a certain dogged determination about him, so I 
don't see him disintegrating in quite the same way as Sirius, but 
certainly I would think that had he only been partially cleared and 
had to remain about Hogwarts with its memories, he would have been 
likely to remain isolated and insular.

Leah