Sirius and Snape parallels again

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 185026

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> Alla:
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> I absolutely think that the member of the gang of killers and 
> torturers needs to hear you disgust me, definitely. 


Leah:But even there, we're back to Dumbledore's own ghosts.  The 
disgust is not I think over Snape being a Death Eater in itself, 
(not that Dumbledore approves of that). But when Tom Riddle came for 
a job having just founded the gang of killers and torturers, 
Dumbledore managed to have a disapproving but perfectly civil 
conversation and even a drink with him,without needing to express 
his disgust in the slightest.  But in Snape, Dumbledore sees a boy 
who could have chosen otherwise, who let himself be seduced by the 
dark, and thereby endangered a girl he cared about. That disgust 
goes back a long way and now Dumbledore has a chance to direct it 
outwards.

Leah (otherwise agreeing in general with Alla's points)