HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
okay so i was just re-reading my favorite part of the book & i felt like writing down my thoughts on it.
okay so...
partone: okay, it took me some time to realize what exactly snape was saying when harry was looking into his memories in the following passage:
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"But this is touching, Severus," said Dumbledore seriously. "Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?"
"For him? shouted Snape. "Expecto Patronum!"
From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe: She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.
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the first time i read that, I was a littel confused. I took it to mean that he actually had grown to care for Harry and that he was trying to prove that to dumbledore through the patronus. It took me some later thinking to realize that the patronus was the same as Lily's, the female form of a Stag, James' animagus and Harry's patronus. This now starts to make sense:
Snape loved Lily and she was his happiest memory, and since patronuses are created by thinking of one's best memory, he conjured a doe as his patronus. (I'm pretty sure that a person's patronus coincides with thier feelings: it's true with the fact that Harry's patronus was his father's, whom he loved. And Tonks' patronus changed into a werewolf when she was in love with Lupin.)
I also came to realize that Snape was speaking in a more sarcastic manner when he yelled "For him?" (hence the italics.) This means that he never cared for Harry, but for Lily. And he conjured the Patronus to show Dumbledore that. And when Dumbledore asks "After all this time?" he is refering to his ongoing love for Lily, in which Snape replys "Always." and Kelli breaks down crying her eyes out.
parttwo: When Snape dies.
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...Snape looked as though there was no blood left in him, his grip on Harry's robes slackened.
"Look...at...me..." he whispered.
The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor adn Snape moved no more.
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At first, I had no idea why Snape asked him that. I thought that perhaps, he had something to tell Harry that he died before he could say. However, after re-reading I have come to realize he had asked Harry to look at him in order to see Harry's, or rather Lily's, eyes one last time before he died. (Recall that in one of Snape's memories speaking to Dumbledore after Lily has been killed and snape is left distraight.
(Dumbledore says this:)"Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remeber the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?"
"DON'T!" bellowed Snape. "Gone...dead..."
"Is this remorse, Severus?"
"I wish...I wish I were dead..."
This proves that Harry and Lily had the same exact eyes and that he truely loved her and wanted to see those eyes one last time before he died.
And for the record, re-reading this all, and figuring it out, moved me to tears...not gonna lie.
Okayy well, that's it for now.
please don't read if you haven't read & wish to read harry potter & the deathly hallows. thankss.
okay so...
partone: okay, it took me some time to realize what exactly snape was saying when harry was looking into his memories in the following passage:
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"But this is touching, Severus," said Dumbledore seriously. "Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?"
"For him? shouted Snape. "Expecto Patronum!"
From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe: She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.
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the first time i read that, I was a littel confused. I took it to mean that he actually had grown to care for Harry and that he was trying to prove that to dumbledore through the patronus. It took me some later thinking to realize that the patronus was the same as Lily's, the female form of a Stag, James' animagus and Harry's patronus. This now starts to make sense:
Snape loved Lily and she was his happiest memory, and since patronuses are created by thinking of one's best memory, he conjured a doe as his patronus. (I'm pretty sure that a person's patronus coincides with thier feelings: it's true with the fact that Harry's patronus was his father's, whom he loved. And Tonks' patronus changed into a werewolf when she was in love with Lupin.)
I also came to realize that Snape was speaking in a more sarcastic manner when he yelled "For him?" (hence the italics.) This means that he never cared for Harry, but for Lily. And he conjured the Patronus to show Dumbledore that. And when Dumbledore asks "After all this time?" he is refering to his ongoing love for Lily, in which Snape replys "Always." and Kelli breaks down crying her eyes out.
parttwo: When Snape dies.
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...Snape looked as though there was no blood left in him, his grip on Harry's robes slackened.
"Look...at...me..." he whispered.
The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor adn Snape moved no more.
-----------------
At first, I had no idea why Snape asked him that. I thought that perhaps, he had something to tell Harry that he died before he could say. However, after re-reading I have come to realize he had asked Harry to look at him in order to see Harry's, or rather Lily's, eyes one last time before he died. (Recall that in one of Snape's memories speaking to Dumbledore after Lily has been killed and snape is left distraight.
(Dumbledore says this:)"Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remeber the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?"
"DON'T!" bellowed Snape. "Gone...dead..."
"Is this remorse, Severus?"
"I wish...I wish I were dead..."
This proves that Harry and Lily had the same exact eyes and that he truely loved her and wanted to see those eyes one last time before he died.
And for the record, re-reading this all, and figuring it out, moved me to tears...not gonna lie.
Okayy well, that's it for now.
please don't read if you haven't read & wish to read harry potter & the deathly hallows. thankss.