Snape's Psychology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[jkoney65]

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> > jkoney:
> > Atonement for his actions would be more believable to people if he had done it without Dumbledore roping him into it. Also if he done if for Harry and not just for the memory of Lilly.
> 
> Julie:
> I don't see how it would be more believable, given Snape's
> character at the time. He *was* a working Death Eater, so to
> speak. That he had a change of heart for any reason is a 
> bigger leap than any other Death Eater took.

jkoney:
He stopped being a working DE the moment he went to Dumbledore. He was with Dumbledore after the Potters were killed. That is not a working DE. 

Comparing Snape to other DE's isn't much of a comparison.

> 
> > jkoney
> > From the time he went to Dumbledore til the end he never cared about Harry, it was always for Lilly. That doesn't show me much if any growth in the character.
> > 
> 
> Julie:
> No, he didn't care for Harry. But what does that have to do
> with anything? Or maybe it says more that he kept doing it
> even though he so greatly disliked Harry. 
> 
> As for growth in his character, I think it is telling that 
> at the beginning Snape only did it for Lily. But by the end,
> Snape did what was right just because it was right, like
> saving Lupin during the Seven Potters chase (he could have
> let his old enemy die without affecting his promise for Lily;
> in fact it would have been safer to do so), and accepting
> that it was more important to destroy Voldemort than to 
> protect Harry's life. 


jkoney:
I think it says alot about his character that he hated a child that he never met and refused to judge him as a separate person.

I can't really count him as saving Lupin. He didn't hit the other DE, he hit George.