FIC: Into the Fold, Chapter Twenty-one

[pasi]

Title: Into the Fold
Author: Pasi
Category: Gen
Rating: 15
Summary for the Fic: Severus Snape is going straight to hell. The people he calls his friends are helping him get there.
Summary for Chapter Twenty-one: Voldemort talks Severus into doing the most dangerous thing he's ever done in his life.

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[dracoena]

Ooo, cliffhanger... well sort of!

This chapter has very good moments. Like Snape´s reasonings as he tries -and succeeds- to justify the death of his father. Or Voldemort´s eloquence, his power of conviction and his admiration for his enemy, Dumbledore. To me, Rowling´s Voldemort is a rather pathetic villain, but this one is not. He is larger than life, as he damn well should have been.

This quote also stuck with me: "To think that people like Bagnold and Crouch, who looked so dried-up in their Prophet photographs and sounded so stodgy in their official pronouncements had the capacity for so hot-blooded an emotion as hate--and for Dumbledore, of all people--took Severus aback for a moment." I found it extremely insightful, depicting an exact emotion that many of us have experienced lots of times when seeing politicians or university professors in newspapers.

And Severus doesn´t love Lily anymore. Hmh. Interesting...

[pasi]

Thank you very much for your comment!

To me, Rowling´s Voldemort is a rather pathetic villain, but this one is not. He is larger than life, as he damn well should have been.

I can see where JKR is coming from, though. Psychotic leaders and their banal, time-serving followers have caused a lot of evil in the world. But I also think that, in his early years, Tom/Voldie is shown as very cunning, even brilliant. He seems to have fooled all his teachers but Dumbledore, who had the chance, as the others did not, of seeing him unguarded at the orphanage. This Voldemort would have had the ability, I think, to manipulate brighter DE's like Severus into putting themselves under his control.

depicting an exact emotion that many of us have experienced lots of times when seeing politicians or university professors in newspapers.

Too true. *g*

And Severus doesn´t love Lily anymore. Hmh. Interesting...Hehehehehe.... Severus often doesn't know his own mind. That's one of his biggest problems

[dracoena]

Severus often doesn't know his own mind. That's one of his biggest problems.

And we can´t forget that he was in the middle of a Voldie talk session, either...

As usual, your responses provide a lot of food for thought.

You´re too good. :P