Snape Coward?

[bystardust]

No: HPFGUIDX 38540

--- Joy wrote:
> I would think to be a spy against Voldemort however would require 
> great courage, the consequences if caught would surely be painful 
> as well as fatal.  He did it once before and it appears he's 
> willing to do it again (making reference to the end of Book 4).

I agree. Snape did cross over to the dark side for a while, but it 
must have taken a lot of bravery and a -lot- of willpower to come 
back. He probably lives each day in mortal terror of Voldemort and 
what might happen to him (Snape) if he (Snape) is discovered, and I 
don't think it's a surprise that he's a complete jerk. It was 
probably always expected by his family that he would be a Death Eater 
when he grew up, and that made him bitter; and now that he's left 
Voldemort, he's even more bitter. I think that living with what he 
did and what he could have become really bothers him, and he's 
willing to do pretty much anything to make up for it.

I keep having a nagging suspicion, though, that Snape's not as 
reformed as he seems. In that case, most of my argument would be 
wrong...but I guess we'll have to wait and see. ;)

--Doldra