Does Snape like Dumbledore?

[*Lilith Morgana*]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> What about the converse?  Do you think Snape likes Dumbledore?
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>                          -- Dave

I was just going to post a counter-question like that...Actually, I 
think Snape owes Dumbledore too much to be able to like him entirely. 
Respect him, yes. Obey him, yes. But *like* him, I don't know. 
We know how much Snape hates to be indebted to other people and I 
also believe that a tad of the hatred he feels towards Harry has 
something to do with the debt he still feels he's got to pay James 
back. James only did what anyone with a decent brain would have done- 
(sorry, I don't count him braver than average...) and as far as we 
know, Albus Dumbledore must have done something far bigger. 

Dumbledore forgave Snape for being a Death Eater, made him a spy and 
gave him a job at Hogwarts (in a time when I *do* believe that the 
name Severus Snape wasn't associated with anything positive in the 
wizarding world)- just imagine what a debt for Snape to pay back! 

I imagine him being pretty grateful of course, but also, and more 
importantly- angry with Albus for doing what he did. "Damn you for 
making me owe you all this, Albus Dumbledore!" I understand him. Who 
would want to have such a thing pressuring you all your life? Knowing 
that this certain person saved your skin at a point when you were 
unsaveable and being forced to spend the rest of your existence 
paying back. :-(

That's my theory. 

Lilith