[HPforGrownups] Re: Yet another Snape Theory

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2830


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From: "ht " <hilary_tamar at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Yet another Snape Theory


> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eggplant88 at h... wrote:
> > >What's wrong with Snape being a SOB just because he's a SOB?
> >
> > Because he wouldn't be very interesting then.
>
> I must respectfully disagree. You don't get many characters like
> Snape -- a throughly nasty person who's (as far as we know) on the
> side of the Light; a "good guy" who's not "good."
>
"So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a
false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good
men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first
magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish
a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their
being in the right in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in
this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure
that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than
their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition,
and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as
well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a
question."

    - Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, No. 1