Q: why readers love Snape (Was:Draco/ Snape parallels)

[rycar007]

No: HPFGUIDX 33364

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "brewpub44" <brewpub44 at e...> wrote:
> 
> > Eloise wrote (in part):
> > 
> > > By the way, does Snape have any male fans?

Well, yeah I'm a Snape fan, I love the idea of a guy who knows he's a 
good guy but hates it, even if he's a jerk he has to do the right 
thing despite himself. Kinda like Spike during 4th/5th season Buffy :)

>..he does some really tremendous, yet 
> difficult, things:...
> -- trying to keep Harry and the other students in check and obeying 
> the rules. Look at many schools in America right now, who is in 
> control, the students or the faculty? And the quality of education 
> thus suffers -brewpub44

I tend to disagree with you here, actually. I think it's the 
adherence to indifferent rules that's one of Snape's failings, as 
well as part of the failings of America's schools and court system. 
Snape cares more about whether students are out at night or not than 
whether, say, a dragon is loose in the castle, and passes this on to 
his students. Rules are not everything.

> -- Turning on the DEs at the end of LV's reign of terror
> -- Taking Dumbledore's dangerous mission at the end of GoF -
brewpub44

Here here! Another interesting aspect of Snape's character. 

> Even his favoritism of Draco may not be all bad. If, as I suspect, 
> Lucius becomes a pawn to LV, Draco may need someone to turn to for 
> help, and that would be Severus. Perhaps Snape is trying to make 
the 
> boy a leader, not a follower, which, in my book, is better, even if 
> you are a bad guy. -brewpub44

Is there an acronym for not being able to stand all this Draco-angst 
stuff? He's a jerk, and the worst kind; I can't stand him, and don't 
see him ever being "redeemed" or whatnot. Begging for mercy and 
saying now, as he dies, he realizes his fault perhaps...but anyway. 
It seems to me as if Lucius, and most of the DEs, don't know Snape 
was a spy. I even question whether Voldy knows. Would Dumbledore 
really send Snape back if he thought Voldemort knew, would Voldemort 
ever accept Snape if he had once been a spy, despite his pleadings? 
Somehow, "the one who is lost to us"? If Malfoy (Draco) thinks Snape 
is an escaped but faithful DE, isn't that a bad influence for the 
little rat?

-Rycar, proud member of L.O.L.L.I.P.O.P.S.