(Anonymous)
I personally think he wanted the Ministry incident to happen
Oh yes. As he did the Philosopher's Stone incident. And the Harry-blood resurrection. And... Basically, every year at the end of the year when Harry's life is threatened in a major way (and he comes back from his fiasco with usually a major or minor injury) Dumbledore looks inordinately *cheerful* and/or *triumphant*. It's abominable.
Then again I'm a Snarry shipper and I think Snape loved Lily like a crush/best friend manner. ;D
You know, I really hope that becomes fanon. Not only among Snarry shippers but all Snape slashers and maybe even among his *gen* and *het* fans. I mean, we're so good at seeing romantic tension where none were intended, and seeing how badly most of the *intended* romances have been written it has been no trouble at all explaining them away as some misunderstanding or another (Imperiused!Tonks comes to mind in particular...) in neutralizing them of their interference with our own romantic plot. But the thing is, shipping or no shipping, HP's structural message would be *way* better off if Snape's motivation for turning around and seeking redemption were anything *but* lustful, self-centered romance. Who's to say a love has to be romantic to be life-changingly strong! What if Severus adored Lily as a friend, as hers was the only decent human interaction he ever experienced in his whole life -- bad family situation, all of his pureblood Slytherin "friends" ending up to be no more than users of lesser races, everybody else treating him like vermin including Dumbledore -- but tragically in their youths, she turned cold and he ended up deserting her because *Lily* started loving *Severus* romantically at an earlier year and Severus as a 100% gay boy couldn't love her back? We have never seen his so-called everlasting romantic love from anywhere except through the witnessing POV of Harry and Dumbledore, one of whom is a hormonal teenager and the other is a man suffering from severe empathy disorder, who has never in his long life loved another non-family human being in his life except when he got infatuated with a pretty blond boy with the ethical personality of Hitler. Of course those two men would misunderstand, and maybe Snape wanted them to, as persuading them of his love as something of that sort would be way quicker and more painless, but *friendship* can be a driving force burning through a man's lifetime and providing him with his only happy memory strong enough to conjure a Patronus, especially if his familial and romantic loves have all gone south without exception.
...Sorry for jumping in and rambling out of nowhere! ;) I just really, really hate that particular part of the story line, even more than I hate the way Snape supposedly died (which I hate enough to light up a candle with).
raisin_gal
Oh yes. As he did the Philosopher's Stone incident. And the Harry-blood resurrection. And... Basically, every year at the end of the year when Harry's life is threatened in a major way (and he comes back from his fiasco with usually a major or minor injury) Dumbledore looks inordinately *cheerful* and/or *triumphant*. It's abominable.
Then again I'm a Snarry shipper and I think Snape loved Lily like a crush/best friend manner. ;D
You know, I really hope that becomes fanon. Not only among Snarry shippers but all Snape slashers and maybe even among his *gen* and *het* fans. I mean, we're so good at seeing romantic tension where none were intended, and seeing how badly most of the *intended* romances have been written it has been no trouble at all explaining them away as some misunderstanding or another (Imperiused!Tonks comes to mind in particular...) in neutralizing them of their interference with our own romantic plot. But the thing is, shipping or no shipping, HP's structural message would be *way* better off if Snape's motivation for turning around and seeking redemption were anything *but* lustful, self-centered romance. Who's to say a love has to be romantic to be life-changingly strong! What if Severus adored Lily as a friend, as hers was the only decent human interaction he ever experienced in his whole life -- bad family situation, all of his pureblood Slytherin "friends" ending up to be no more than users of lesser races, everybody else treating him like vermin including Dumbledore -- but tragically in their youths, she turned cold and he ended up deserting her because *Lily* started loving *Severus* romantically at an earlier year and Severus as a 100% gay boy couldn't love her back? We have never seen his so-called everlasting romantic love from anywhere except through the witnessing POV of Harry and Dumbledore, one of whom is a hormonal teenager and the other is a man suffering from severe empathy disorder, who has never in his long life loved another non-family human being in his life except when he got infatuated with a pretty blond boy with the ethical personality of Hitler. Of course those two men would misunderstand, and maybe Snape wanted them to, as persuading them of his love as something of that sort would be way quicker and more painless, but *friendship* can be a driving force burning through a man's lifetime and providing him with his only happy memory strong enough to conjure a Patronus, especially if his familial and romantic loves have all gone south without exception.
...Sorry for jumping in and rambling out of nowhere! ;) I just really, really hate that particular part of the story line, even more than I hate the way Snape supposedly died (which I hate enough to light up a candle with).
raisin_gal