DH reread CH 31

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187480

 
> Alla:

> So forgive me for DUH moment, but is the point that Snape could have been Bloody Baron but for Dumbledore? Just as Baron he (of course he did not do it himself like Baron, but still works for me) helped kill woman he loved, just as Baron he was overcomed with guilt and remorse, but Dumbledore forced him to direct his remorse in more positive way?
> 
> I mean Snape is described as suicidal that night. Or is there totally different point?

Pippin:
For one thing, we get  the answer to Seamus's question from Book One "How did he get covered in blood?" :) But yes, I think we need to know what could have happened to Snape if his remorse had not been redirected. 

Alla: 
> And I still do not know what the point of this scene was for Malfoy, seriously, I don't.
> 
> That he does not leave his friends, we sort of knew that by now.

Pippin:

I didn't know Draco was going to stay with Goyle. It showed that he can behave differently than he did in PS/SS, when he fled in panic from Quirrellmort, leaving Harry to his fate. 

Harry was not there to see Narcissa plead for Draco's life, nor to see Draco reacting with shame and disgust to the murder of Charity Burbage. Something had to happen to prepare Harry to understand why Narcissa was willing to save him.


Pippin