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

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 187454

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Montavilla47:
> > > Quite probably, teen!Snape would have been just as horrified if his spell had produced that reaction.  
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> > > The only analogous situation that I can think of with Snape was  when he was ten and Petunia was hit--and he denied doing it. But I don't think the situations are really close enough, either in how they came about, the outcomes, or the maturity level of the participants to make a good comparison.
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> Carol responds:
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> I think that Severus hitting James with the little cutting hex (which doesn't act like a full-fledged Sectumsempra and doesn't require any complicated countercurse) is probably a bit closer. He doesn't feel any remorse there, but neither do his antagonists.
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Montavilla47:
I agree with most of your post, but I want to clarify something here.  
When Snape used the cutting curse on James (and I'm going to assume
that it's some form of Sectumsempra), he did so in a controlled manner--
even though he was quite upset.

When I say that Teen!Snape would have been horrified if he'd done 
what Harry did to Draco (as Harry was horrified), I mean that if he had
used the spell and it had produced the same result.  That is, if James
had suddenly started bleeding in a dozen different places and going into
shock.