Snape's death
lizzyben04
lizzyben04 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 20 04:07:31 UTC 2011
No: HPFGUIDX 191270
Don't forget, Voldemort also tried to play matchmaker for Snape! He consoled Snape about Lily & tried to encourage Snape to get over her & find some nice pure-blood woman. Which shows some level of personal concern that seems totally at odds w/an evil overlord.
lizzyben
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jean" <jean_cuffe at ...> wrote:
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> > Liz: Going off on a little tangent now, but all this talk of Snape's death has got me curious!
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> > Why didn't LV use AK on Snape? I haven't got to reading DH yet, only about half way through OotP, or seen the film but I know Nagini was used. This, to me, seems to indicate LV didn't want to kill Snape, he showed 'feelings' for him, even a bit of remorse? This is SO out of character for LV!
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> > Of course, it was vital to the story that Snape wasn't killed outright,
> > because of the memories, but what are everyone's feelings about the method of death?
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> Jean:
> Of course the Memories are the reason he wasn't AKed - however you're right in the Voldemort seemed to like Snape. He didn't just kill him, and he tried to spare Lily for him "Stand aside you silly girl
stand aside now."
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> So, when we see Snape's memories, and he asked Voldemort to spare Lily, he did actually try to do that for him. I do wonder how Snape got this kind of loyalty from Voldemort, considering we know he doesn't care who he kills, nor needs/wants friends.
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> Jean.
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