A Quick (well ... kinda) Snape Thought

[lindseyharrisst <lindseyharrisst@hotmail.com>]

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I have always admired Snape more for what he has done that is positive
precisely BECAUSE it does not come naturally.
His behaviour that demonstrates courage, like becoming a spy or
accepting and bowing to knowledgable and moral authority like DD, is a
great act of self control and proves JKs point about one being master
of one's own fate (c.f "it's our choices who make us what we are
Harry"). He is one of the books success stories. 

If he were nice by nature then he would not have had any real choices
to make - in that a particular answer or path would always have been
obvious to him. In that way it could be argued that a naturally kind
person giving someone a gift is less "good" than a naturally unkind
person overcoming their impulses to destroy it. 

Snape is the kind of man many fail to understand because he would save
your life but would never smile at you because the latter is not an
important enough thing for him to break his habits for. Yes he's
petty, holds grudges, has unalterable first impressions of people and
no patience but that does n't diminish him, it gives greater value to
his good deeds!

Snapesangel, who (as the moniker suggests) has taken a vow to devote
her life to the spiritual vindication of her one true love).*ick*