[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville and Snape

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3853

mmarth at peoplepc.com wrote:

> I, for one, do not think of Snape as a saint.  I never even said he
> was nice!  But I don't think he is evi(not now).  And just because he
> was a Death Eater doesn't mean he actually murdered or tortured
> someone.  Of course you could say guilty by association and I would
> agree.  We don't even honestly know if he was a Death Eater.

Yes we do, he's got the mark. I think whatever he did in the past, some
compelling thing caused him to reject Voldemort so thoroughly that both
Dumbledore and (apparently) Voldemort are convinced of it. I think it had to
have been emotion-based for it to have lasted so long.

<pet theory warning> Perhaps Snape is pale, and Dumbledore looks doubtful,
after Snape leaves to do whatever he has to do, because that thing is deny
Lily sufficiently to convince Voldemort he's over it and will come back...?

--Amanda