The edit reduces Snape's entire arc to a single haunting line — 'you are your mother's eyes' — suggesting that decades of double-agency, risk, and devotion were powered by one unresolved love. It reframes sacrifice not as abstract duty or ideology, but as the gravitational pull of a single relationship. The most enduring motivations, the scene implies, are rarely noble causes — they are faces.
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