Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[montavilla47]

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> Alla:
> I can totally see them forgiving Snape. Grateful for saving Harry's life? I have no problem with Harry feeling gratitude for that. But I am trying to imagine being that God forbid something happens to me and I cannot protect children in my family whom I love and then person who did something to me saves my child's life. That's nice! I guess can be grateful for that, but I can never be grateful (eh, I will be dead, but we are running with this hypothetical, so I guess my soul will be grateful) for the fact that such person made it impossible for me being there and protect my child in the first place.

Montavilla47:
A lot of people contributed to James and Lily being killed and Harry
being left alone.  Those people include Sybil, Snape, Dumbledore,
Peter, and Sirius.  Oh, and Voldemort.

If Lily and James were likely to hold grudges after death, they'd
need to hold them against all those people.  Snape might be high
on that list, but he's hardly the number one person responsible.


Alla:
> I can never be grateful for the sufferings that my child will endure, the hateful relatives that he will be placed with because of that person. Obviously, I am speculating and that is why I am talking from the first person, but that is what I would imagine Lily and James in the afterlife thinking.

Montavilla47:
But again, Snape isn't the person most responsible for Harry 
being placed with the Dursleys.  That one was Dumbledore.

And he isn't exactly responsible for the Dursleys being so
hateful.  That's on them.