[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Psychology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 187913

Nikkalmati:
> I think that Snape's belief in LV was completely destroyed in the instant he found out that LV intended to kill the Potters, and he had no recourse other than to throw himself on the mercy of DD.  Snape thought he was risking his life by talking to DD, who might kill him on sight, so he must have given up all hope that LV would spare her. 

Bart:
    There is a story about a religious teacher, who was giving a lecture 
series. He was with a companion, looking out his window. Several 
teenagers started to strip a  car on the street.

    The teacher looked down. He commented to his companion, "I know what 
they are doing is wrong, but look at the skill with which they are 
performing their task. There is a sort of poetry to it .... Hey! Wait a 
second! That's MY car!!!!!!"

    I suspect that Snape was kind of like that teacher, depersonalizing 
the evil that the Death Eaters were doing because they gave him 
recognition, until it became personal, and it was only then that he 
realized that not only were they going after his lifelong friend, but it 
went further; that EVERYTHING he had been doing was wrong. Snape turning 
sides for selfish reasons was disgusting, but Snape repenting was not.

    Bart