DH reread CH 31

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> Potioncat:
> Slow---I'm right there with you. I didn't pick up on this either. Until now I never really considered Snape as suicidal, but the more I think about it, the more likely it might have been. And that makes DD's manipulation of Snape a little less sinister. It wasn't just what Snape could do for him, but what he was doing for Snape.

Alla:

But wait, now I am confused. Me thinking about Snape as suicidal was not even an inference, but straight from canon (or so I thought), I will double check when I am home, but I was pretty sure that narrator describes Snape looking as suicidal that night after Lily's death. I did not pick up on direct analogy between Baron and Snape, and that makes me slower than you lol, because at least you did not think of Snape as suicidal.

As to whether it makes Dumbledore's manipulation more or less sinister, well to me as I said it before it makes it more sinister, since I was looking at that night conversation and saw a person who was not really clear headed to decide whether he is indeed willing to enter into life service to Dumbledore, you know?

But I guess we can now say that with Baron author makes a point that Dumbledore was saving him from death. I am still not sure if I like his means though.

I will address Draco later.

JMO,

Alla