Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[Margaret Fenney]

No: HPFGUIDX 190690

> > Librasmile:
> > Yes, but those are the conclusions you come to when you see 
> > Snape as a human being which is not a position that any amount
> > of logic, rational argument, common sense or anything else that 
> > an anti-Snape person can accept. =^)
>
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> Bookcrazzzy (#190608):
> I don't think of Snape as being thoughtlessly evil by any means, 
> nor do I think him the purely innocent victim that you seem to 
> consider him to be. Consider that while a student, he developed 
> the Levicorpus spell that was used by James against him. How, 
> may I ask, did it become known among the students unless Snape 
> used it against someone at some point and would you think his 
> intent when developing it was "innocent"? He also developed 
> Sectumsempra specifically, as he noted in his potions book, "for 
> enemies." Sectumsempra is without question a lethal curse and I 
> don't think there is much question that the Marauders were included 
> in Snape's "enemies". By comparison, the Marauders developed the 
> Map which was clearly for mischief making, became animagi to 
> support a friend, and did not do anything at any point that 
> supports a theory of lethal intent except for the Shrieking Shack 
> incident. I don't see the Marauders as innocent either but I 
> believe them to be immature boys, not evil incarnate and I believe 
> Sirius to be the most impulsive, thoughtless and least mature of 
> the group but not a murderer.


Bookcrazzzy:

I am neither a hater nor a lover of Severus Snape or Sirius Black, 
seeing them both as human beings with strengths and weaknesses who 
have suffered great losses in their lives.  I find it frustrating 
when the lovers and haters make statements that are *completely 
unsupportable by canon* and word them *as though they are fact and 
anyone who disagrees is irrational*. Would it be possible for people 
to support statements with canon when possible and separate those 
kinds of statements from the ones that are purely opinion?  It really 
is possible to discuss Harry Potter without insulting people, whether 
or not it is done with a "smile".

JMO,

Bookcrazzzy