Snape simply watches a fellow Hogwarts teacher (one who we've never met, grrrr)get murdered and he does nothing to save her. It's like Jo is saying: do you STILL worship this guy and find him an inspirational role model?
YES, because there was not a damned thing he could have done to save her. Any rescue attempt would result only in both of them getting killed, as well as the betrayal of Severus' allegiance and who-knows-what outcome for the students of Hogwarts and for the war itself.
We've never met this colleague of his, yet the way she pleads with him suggests that she did trust and respect Severus and would expect him to want to help her. Which, once we know what Severus said to Dumbledore--"Lately, only those I could not save"--is exactly what he would have wanted to do.
Having to sit there watching her suffer and then be killed, and remain stoically Occluded through it all, represented a far deeper and more wrenching courage than the reckless Gryffindor variety.
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Date: 2009-07-29 05:04 pm (UTC)YES, because there was not a damned thing he could have done to save her. Any rescue attempt would result only in both of them getting killed, as well as the betrayal of Severus' allegiance and who-knows-what outcome for the students of Hogwarts and for the war itself.
We've never met this colleague of his, yet the way she pleads with him suggests that she did trust and respect Severus and would expect him to want to help her. Which, once we know what Severus said to Dumbledore--"Lately, only those I could not save"--is exactly what he would have wanted to do.
Having to sit there watching her suffer and then be killed, and remain stoically Occluded through it all, represented a far deeper and more wrenching courage than the reckless Gryffindor variety.