Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 186871

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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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.
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> Alla:
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> Yes, he could. And Harry could have waved his wand and apparated to Mars for a little break from camping in DH. I would say that both are just too huge of assumptions to use to argue for or against anything.
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> jkoney: 
> > 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.
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> Alla:
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> How about wrongly? 
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> I am imagining James kicking himself more than once in the Potterverse afterlife for saving Snape due to what said Snape started for the Potters and especially for their son. And I totally think that Harry's life would have been much better had some Severus Snape had ceased living.
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> But this? Is just bullying. 

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Carol responds:

I don't think James would be kicking himself for saving Severus, considering that had Snape not been spying on Dumbledore, some other Death Eater would have had the same assignment, and if some other DE had overheard some or all of the Prophecy and reported it, Lily would not have had the chance to be saved because Severus (who might or might not have been a DE) would not have known that Voldemort was targeting the Potters and could not have asked LV to spare Lily, giving her the chance for life that enabled her to perform the ancient magic that saved Harry. Granted, Snape did report part of the Prophecy (all of it that he heard) to LV, but he also tried to save Lily. Had he not done so, all three POtters would have been killed and LV would have remained in his body and in control of the WW. It's a good/bad thing, good coming out of evil, which would not have happened had it not been for Snape's involvement. And, setting all that aside, Harry could not have defeated Voldemort if not for Snape's help.

So, if James is the good man he seems to have developed into despite his bullying past, Dead!James will forgive Dead!Severus and be grateful to him, as Harry was, or he would never have named his own son after him.

Carol, who agrees with the part of Alla's post about James's bulling but not that Harry would have been better off without Snape