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

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 184993

> Potioncat:
> If he maintains a friendship with his DE friends, he knows that 
when 
> their leader returns, he will be at war with them.

Zara:
I think he did betray his old friends, in the first war. We are not 
given any specific instances, but he was a spy for Albus on Voldemort 
and the Death Eaters...how could he avoud it? Though I don't think it 
is avoidance of such future betrayals that would have kept him from 
pursuing new frienships with other Death Eaters, after the first war. 
I don't think he would still have *wanted* to make friends with them. 
(Nor should he).

> Potioncat:
> If he makes new 
> friendships with non-LV supporters, he may have to harm them as he 
> pretends to support LV. 

Zara:
Even if he didn't, he'd have to lie to them, about things that really 
matter to him, both between the wars and after Voldemort's return, 
hardly  conducive to friendship. It seems to me that within these 
constraints he did "make friends". Albus was the one man who knew 
everything, and I feel Snape came to care for him. Certainly, his 
agreeing to Albus's "one great favor" suggests this to me (and, of 
course, illustrates your point - Snape ended up having to kill him in 
his spy role).

> Potioncat:
> I think he did have a friendship of sorts with the Hogwart's 
staff.  

Zara: 
I agree about that. And it was, quite understandably, shattered in 
DH. That's the problem. People "reformed Snape" would find worthy of 
attempting to befriend, are people who would be absolutely disgusted 
with him when it seemed he returned to Voldemort.


> Potioncat:
> It still seems to me that he had "gotten over" Lily for several 
> years. She ended the friendship in 5th year. So there was what--
about 
> 4 years of no relationship? 

Zara:
I completely agree. Sev embraced the advice of the "get over her" 
crowd with gusto. His friend dumped him, so he did exactly what 
you're supposed to do to get over such things. He fell back on his 
other friendships and pursued their common interests with gusto. <g> 
If he'd gotten over her any more than he did, we'd have had no story. 
Somehow, his inability to stand by and watch his former friend die as 
a consequence  of his own actions does not strike me as evidence of 
arrested development, emotional damage, or pitiful weakness.