Yeah, I think you're definitely right in that hey, Draco has acted repulsively his whole life here. He may just have not dealt with it realistically, like he could justify it or pretend he was cool or whatever. It would be great if his seeing the truth in HBP would lead him to be more honest in the future, though we can't be sure about that. Like when DD says to him that it does matter if he uses the word Mudblood even if he's about to commit murder..obviously he's making a connection between ugliness on a small scale and a big scale.
I suppose...he was more like a werewolf before in that he was a puppet to his heritage and could use it to take the blame, but Dumbledore offered him the choice of not being the monster he thought he was destined to be.
Ooh! Well said--it reminds me of the "Bad Faith" essays on hp_essys, which I think are very accurate.
For Snape it's always been about power; the power to have vengeance against his childhood tormentors, the power to rise above the sick qualities of his home life, and the power to claim an exalted position in the Wizarding World.
Yeah, I think ultimately we'll be able to look back and have a much clearer idea what was going on with Snape in any given scene, and this will play a big part in it.
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Date: 2005-09-15 10:53 pm (UTC)I suppose...he was more like a werewolf before in that he was a puppet to his heritage and could use it to take the blame, but Dumbledore offered him the choice of not being the monster he thought he was destined to be.
Ooh! Well said--it reminds me of the "Bad Faith" essays on hp_essys, which I think are very accurate.
For Snape it's always been about power; the power to have vengeance against his childhood tormentors, the power to rise above the sick qualities of his home life, and the power to claim an exalted position in the Wizarding World.
Yeah, I think ultimately we'll be able to look back and have a much clearer idea what was going on with Snape in any given scene, and this will play a big part in it.