MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 68880

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." <dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:

> Meanwhile, Snape keeps sneering, keeps bullying Harry, keeps favoring 
> the son of a man who is now a known Death Eater (and seems determined 
> to keep doing so, even though that very son revealed himself as an 
> active accomplice of the Dark Lord when he confronted Harry at the 
> Ministry in OoP).  I simply can't buy it any more -- Snape is simply 
> too smart and too important to the story to carry on as a one-
> dimensional "meanie," even if he is on "our" side now.  And, with 
> what we now know incontrovertibly, for him (as a member of the Order) 
> to favor Draco, in class or otherwise, comes close to being an act of 
> treason. 
> 
> Maybe the glimpse of young Servius being tormented by BMOC Potter and 
> his buddies represent the beginning of the kind of insight that will 
> allow the guy to show us some of the depth and perspective he MUST 
> have, given all he's been through and all he knows.  I certainly hope 
> so.  
> 
> D.G. ("JazzmanChgo")

Now me (Cindy):
I don't see Snape as being one-dimensional at all. I see jkr's
portrayal of all Slytherin's as one-dimensional (which bothers me to
no end) but not Snape. He is too complicated, mysterious and
inteligent to be one-dimensional. His treatment of Harry is
one-dimensional, but so is Harry's treatment of him, they are both the
same in that respect. I would also like to see a positive change.
Anyway, the whole Death Eater thing... If Snape is still spying, whihc
he is - we just don't iknow how (yet) - it would make sense for him to
treat Draco Malfoy nicely, considering who his father is.
-Cindy (self-appointed Snape patronus)