[HPforGrownups] Definitions

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greatlit2003 wrote:
“I am curious to learn whether others believe (like I do) that Snape 
is truly on the Dumbledore's side. If anyone does not trust Snape, I 
would like to know if you trust Sirius or Lupin. What distinguishes 
Snape from Sirius that we should believe Snape is evil while Sirius 
is good?”

I trust all three: Sirius, Snape, and Lupin.  My belief is that people think Snape is evil is because he is consistently horrible to the students.  He puts down Neville, Harry’s father, and has been holding a grudge for about twenty years.  He is also *known* to, at one point, been a DE. 

Sirius, on the other hand, was only ‘evil’ when he was so bent on killing Pettigrew.  Any other time, he has been very kind, and has always thought of Harry.  Lupin has never been evil, in my opinion.  He’s been *stupid*, in not telling DD that Sirius was an animagus, but he hasn’t been evil.  

I do not believe that Snape is evil.  He’s my favorite character.  I think he’s done some horrible things in his life that he regrets, to an extent.  But he’s not evil.

“Anyway, what does this have to do with my argument concerning Snape? 
I would like to ask you all why we should think he is a DE. Yes, he 
is nasty, sarcastic and a big bully. But how does that prove that he 
is a Death Eater?”

The fact that he has the Dark Mark on his arm and the fact that DD said “Severus Snape was indeed a Death Eater.”

On a less sarcastic note, even though he was once a DE, I don’t think he was evil.  However, I am of the camp that believes Snape has killed people, and wasn’t a ‘good DE.’  He is not currently a DE. He is a disgruntled teacher who doesn’t like most of his students.  And he may be a spy for DD, but I guess we’ll have to wait till OotP comes out to find out, won’t we?

<snip greatlit’s stuff about defining good and evil>

The quote may or may not be on my signature, I can’t remember if I put it there or not, so I’ll put it here now: “There is no black and white; only shades of grey.”  In other words, there is no good or evil.  Everything is just jumbled into one big mess.  People can be good AND evil, as you’ve shown in your examples.  That’s just *my* belief. <bg>


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