DH reread CH 31

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187485


> Alla:
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> 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. 

Pippin:
I think it is an inference. Snape looked like "a man who had lived a hundred years of misery", peering "through a haze of pain". He wished out loud that he was dead. But he never said outright that he wants to kill himself.

He also is described as "making a terrible sound, like a wounded animal", which ties into the description of him as Hagrid's hut is burning. "[H]is face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them." 

This parallel strengthens my belief that Snape's remorse in HBP is for James, whom he still hates as much as ever, but whom he would have wanted to save if he still could, just as he saved Lupin. 

Pippin





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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> I will address Draco later.
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> JMO,
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> Alla
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