More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

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No: HPFGUIDX 187403

Kemper now:
I agree that he regrets Lily's death more. But it's evident in The Prince's
Tale that he recognizes it was his involvement with the Dark Arts or at least
his support of the Dark Arts that brought her death and it is that which he
strives to atone for: from his use of Mudblood against her to his chastising of
Phineas for using the term to refer to Hermione when no one living was around to
hear it, to prove he had changed; from his initial, selfish desire for Lily to
live at the expense of James and Harry (see Dumbledore's contempt) to his
Expecto Patronum for Harry (see Dumbledore's eyes full of tears), Snape is well
into the light. <SNIP>


Alla:

Not evident to me at all, sorry. It is especially not evident to me that his Expecto Patronum was for Harry. I read it as Snape's shock at Dumbledore's suggestion "For him?". I read it as his indignant response that everything that he is doing is still for Lily.

Having said that, while I do not believe that Snape changed in this way at all, I believe that he changed in a sense that he will not be tempted by Dark Arts.

JMO,

Alla.