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161 " Regardless of personal feelings, a protector like Snape will go into immediate intervention mode when a vulnerable person is endangered. "
― Lorrie Kim , Snape: A Definitive Reading
162 " Now, he can protect a child he likes for the sake of a father who respects him and a mother who knows the enormity of what she's asking him. The gratification he generates from protecting Draco will give him more momentum to extend the same protection to Harry. Thanks "
163 " the protectiveness supersedes any personal conflict. "
164 " Undo. That is a clue to Snape’s approach to the Dark Arts. Those who know how damage was done, plus have the extra push that comes of wanting to combat evil instead of being tempted by it, can reverse Dark Magic. "
165 " In the few months before he makes most of them hate him, Snape is trying to teach the students how to stay powerful when they are voiceless or silenced. "
166 " Snape would have known, through Phineas Nigellus Black’s reports, that Ron was no longer with Harry and Hermione. He would also have seen Ron searching for Harry and Hermione in the forest earlier that day. The silver doe led Ron to Harry as well as leading Harry to the sword. "
167 " As painful as it is to be seen falsely, such concerns recede compared to the emotion of wishing to protect someone—or grieving the failure to protect them. "
168 " That’s how Snape stands being thought evil when he is actually risking more than almost anyone as a double agent against Voldemort. The longer he can remain hidden, the more he can protect not only Harry but his own Slytherins, boys as needy as he was at their age. The Inquisitorial Squad showed him how easy it would be for others to turn them toward evil. He will do what he must to stay close and protect them. "
169 " Readers are divided on whether Snape arranged to have his old Potions book fall into Harry’s hands or whether it was coincidence. Snape’s use of Legilimency here suggests coincidence: that he did not know Harry had the book, but now he suspects. "
170 " Perhaps it will eventually sink in for Draco that a teacher thinks he matters enough to be worth dying for. It’s the highest form of life debt: I would die for you and your loved ones. "
171 " Why does Harry approach him? To Snape’s dying breath, Harry hates him. But he approaches because in Snape’s final moments, alone with a genocidal madman, the only thing he asked for, three times, was permission to look for Harry. He didn’t ask for his life, only Harry. Dumbledore once told Harry that “help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” (HP/CoS, 264) Harry heard Snape’s dying wish and granted it. "
172 " Readers often wonder: What would have happened if Harry hadn’t appeared just before Snape died? Was it only coincidence that Snape was able to deliver the final message? Or did Snape make the choice to grasp the front of Harry’s robes rather than save himself (Justice, 232-8)? Snape was “trying to staunch the bloody wound at his neck” until Harry appeared; he was trying to live long enough to find Harry. "
173 " This is what makes him the staff expert on Dark Magic. He knows how it feels to cast it, to mean it, to want to cause harm, and then to wish with all his being that he could undo the damage, to wish he could give his life if it would turn back time so he could change the past. Only someone who has felt both what it takes to cast Dark Magic "
174 " Hermione has always been ready to be the vessel that receives Snape’s thoughts. She knows precisely what Snape needs; the flask she conjures is even the perfect size. "