Cedric, Snape and carma was re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190607



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Librasmile" <librasmile at ...> wrote:
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> Librasmile:
> I don't want to get into a long back and forth because clearly folks are just taking their position and sticking to it. But I'm a complete absolute Snape fan. I don't see him as flawless. But it still puzzles me that people can see him being harassed for years and then NOT see that incident in the Shack as an attempt to kill him. If there wasn't a werewolf involved AND if Sirius and crew hadn't been harassing him for YEARS with NO restraint from school authority, then yes I would say it was just an impulsive act. But from where I'm sitting hostile intent had been established for years before this latest incident and that hostility naturally leads to an attempt to kill Severus. As far as I'm concerned Sirius intended to kill, didn't give a rat's ass what would have happened to Lupin ( until after the fact when he realized that LUPIN could have been killed ), and James was only saving the Marauders' a**'s when he saved Snape. But people are going to believe what they want to believe. 
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Nikkalmati

Yes, everyone interprets things through their own experience, but I thought in the bigger picture that you meant that no one had a correct sense of morality (Harry possibly excepted, but he did cast Crucio and Imperio and Sectumsempra).  Everyone had feet of clay or fell down on the job.  DD was a disaster, McGonnagal turned on Snape, Lupin allowed his weakness to dictate his non-action and then he tried to abandon his wife, Snape was bad from the start and then had to sacrifice himself to make up for it,  Lily was a prig, Ron ran out on his friends, Hermione was too punitive, etc. etc.  Hagrid comes out pretty well. Draco looks like he is going to change, but doesn't.  The WW is corrupt.  The only morality in the books is the shocking lack of morality - almost like RL.
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Nikkalmati