James and Intent And Snape and Love and Lily's letter

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 15 14:57:58 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 187065

> Pippin:
> Harry knew it was stolen. So if Snape bought the letter from Mundungus, that would be okay?

Alla:

Okay? Of course it will not be okay, but I would not hold Snape responsible for stealing it. 

>> Pippin:
> 
> Snape is an Order member. Of course it is up to him to guard the Order's possessions from Death Eaters. 

Alla:

It is Harry's possession, not Order's possession. Harry let Order use the Headquarters, it did not become their possessions.

And if Snape was guarding them, I have not noticed him returning them to Harry, say with the memories before he died.

Not that all of it makes Snape's action any better to me of course.


> > Alla:
> > 
> > Oh,I see. So having the *complete* letter that his mother wrote and the *complete* picture, not the half of it means that Harry is obsessed with his mother?
> 
> Pippin:
> Yes, if he felt that he could not share anything of hers with someone else who loved her.

Alla:

That's a strawman the way I see it. How did we go from Snape stealing what is not his to Harry not being able to share anything of his mother with someone else who loved her?

I would have no problem with Harry in the goodness of his heart sharing something of Lily's with Snape and I have no doubt he would have done that. But Snape deciding it? Nope, creepy and possessive and just plain wrong and unexcusable the way I see it.

JMO,

Alla







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