И снова о любви и страсти...

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Цитата из 7-й книги ГП

    ...Snape had dropped to his knees and his wand had flown out of his hand.
    "Don’t kill me!"
    "That was not my intention."
    Any sound of Dumbledore Apparating had been drowned by the sound of the wind in the branches. He stood before Snape with his robes whipping around him, and his face was illuminated from below in the light cast by his wand.
    "Well, Severus? What message does Lord Voldemort have for me?"
    "No – no message – I’m here on my own account!"
    Snape was wringing his hands. He looked a little mad, with his straggling black hair flying around him.
    "I – I come with a warning – no, a request – please – "
    Dumbledore flicked his wand. Though leaves and branches still flew through the night air around them, silence fell on the spot where he and Snape faced each other.
    "What request could a Death Eater make of me?"
    "The – the prophecy…the prediction…Trelawney…"
    "Ah, yes," said Dumbledore. "How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?"
    "Everything – everything I heard!" said Snape. "That is why – it is for that reason – he thinks it means Lily Evans!"
    "The prophecy did not refer to a woman," said Dumbledore. "It spoke of a boy born at the end of July – "
    "You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down – kill them all – "
    "If she means so much to you," said Dumbledore, "surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?"
    "I have – I have asked him – "
    "You disgust me," said Dumbledore, and Harry had never heard so much contempt in his voice. Snape seemed to shrink a little, "You do not care, then, about the deaths of her husband and child? They can die, as long as you have what you want?"
    Snape said nothing, but merely looked up at Dumbledore.
    "Hide them all, then," he croaked. "Keep her – them – safe. Please."
    "And what will you give me in return, Severus?"
    "In – in return?" Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, "Anything."

Мерзость какая... а ведь мне попадалось высказывание в духе "Это нормально, любовь с человеком ещё и не такое сделать может".

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    Snape was slumped forward in a chair and Dumbledore was standing over him, looking grim. After a moment or two, Snape raised his face, and he looked like a man who had lived a hundred years of misery since leaving the wild hilltop.
    "I thought…you were going…to keep her…safe…"
    "She and James put their faith in the wrong person," said Dumbledore. "Rather like you, Severus. Weren't you hoping that Lord Voldemort would spare her?"
    Snape's breathing was shallow.
    "Her boy survives," said Dumbledore.
    With a tiny jerk of the head, Snape seemed to flick off an irksome fly.
    "Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember 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…"
    "And what use would that be to anyone?" said Dumbledore coldly. "If you loved Lily Evans, if you truly loved her, then your way forward is clear."
    Snape seemed to peer through a haze of pain, and Dumbledore's words appeared to take a long time to reach him.
    "What - what do you mean?"
    "You know how and why she died. Make sure it was not in vain. Help me protect Lily's son."
    "He does not need protection. The Dark Lord has gone - "
    "The Dark Lord will return, and Harry Potter will be in terrible danger when he does."
    There was a long pause, and slowly Snape regained control of himself, mastered his own breathing. At last he said, "Very well. Very well. But never - never tell, Dumbledore! This must be between us! Swear it! I cannot bear…especially Potter's son…I want your word!"
    "My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?" Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. "If you insist…"

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'You have no idea of the remorse Professor Snape felt when he realised how Lord Voldemort had interpreted the prophecy, Harry. I believe it to be the greatest regret of his life and the reason that he returned -'

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