Draco and Intent: Re: Snape and Harry's Sadism (was: Lack of re-examination)

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 186846

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Carol earlier:
> > > <snip>
> > > Draco has the grace to acknowledge Harry with a nod rather than remaining his enemy, but, then, Harry has saved the whole WW from Voldemort. It's very different from James, whose next act after saving Severus for wholly selfish reasons is to publicly humiliate him.
> > 
> > 
> > Shelley:
> > I would dispute this last line. There might have been a lot of actions  between the "saving" and the "humiliation", and I think we have enough cannon to fill in some of those gaps. <snip>
> > So, I would change that line to read " Draco has the grace to acknowledge Harry with a nod rather than remaining his enemy, but, then, Harry has saved the whole WW from Voldemort. It's very different from Snape, whose next act after being saved is to fight the rescuer, and continue the bad blood that led to more publicly humiliations."
> >
> Carol responds:
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> The actions are canonically about a week apart. (See "The Prince's Tale." Given his detailed responses on the DADA exam, which occurs just before SWM, and his studying of the test after he's taken it, I think it's safe to say that Severus has spent most of that week studying for his OWLs. He has done nothing to antagonize Sirius and James, who merely say "Look who it is" before they sneak up on him and attack him without provocation.
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> There's no canon whatever to indicate that Severus has fought his rescuer--at least not until that rescuer attacks him two on one.
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> Carol, whose position in the previous post remains unchanged
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jkoney:
Since we don't know what Severus was doing, he could have been attacking mudbloods all week and was reviewing his test because he didn't have time to study.

No provocation? Wasn't Snape the one who was trying to find out what the marauders were doing and get them in trouble for it? That in itself is more than enough justification for teenage boys to turn on Snape. Rightly or wrongly they were provoked.