Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 186899


> Alla:
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> Out of curiosity when exactly did he save Sirius? You don't mean in Shrieking Shack I hope?

Pippin:
Well, Alla, where would you rather be? Inside the castle, safe and warm?  Or lying unconscious in the dark by the lakeshore, with a werewolf on the loose and a pack of frustrated dementors nearby?


> Alla:
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> But I thought they were supposed to be grateful not for Snape's saving Harry's life (by the way when was a second time he saved Harry's life?) but for the fact that Snape sold him to Voldemort and helped made Harry an orphan? 

Pippin:
 That's what I get for coming into a thread in the middle. But they're spirits, and it's possible they see what Snape did as a felix culpa if it all came right in the end. Is it even possible for an undamaged soul to hate?

Snape sent the Order to rescue Harry from the MoM. He also rescued Harry from the lakeshore.

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.

Pippin:
Surely you are not claiming it's Snape's fault that Petunia hated her sister? Maybe if Lily had known how important Petunia was going to be, she'd have gone easy on the frogspawn and the transforming teacups. Come to think of it, Lily might ask herself if she couldn't have given Snape himself a second chance. 

I would think that in the Potterverse afterlife you are supposed to become truly aware of your own shortcomings, not other people's. 

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> Alla:
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> Again - there are many maybes. It is not math progression, which will not end till the end. Maybe another event would have come that helped turned the luck in the war. 

Pippin:
Yes, maybe Voldemort would retire to Sussex and take up beekeeping ;) But if James and Lily did not think the defeat of Voldemort was worth the risk of their child growing up without them, they were fools to have  joined the Order in the first place. I do not think they would be such cowards that they don't care how many other people suffer to stop Voldemort as long as their family escaped. But maybe you do not see that as cowardice?

Pippin