Why Hermoine trusts Snape/justifying Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 69422

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...> 
wrote:

(snip)

 Also - off topic - he is a very likeable character. He is highly
> intelligent, uses dry humor, and is cunning, shrewd and a survivor.
> Plus, I really go for the whole 'tortured hero' thing. And I do see
> him that way, because it is difficult living two seperate lives, 
which
> is what a spy does.
> Hermione and Dumbledore defend him all the time. They must know
> something that we don't
> -Cindy

About Snape being "likable"...in JKR's webcast on MSN she tells 
everyone NOT to start trusting Snape...I think she let it 
slip...personally, I think Snape is going to be the ultimate traitor 
in the story and Dumbledore is going to regret trusting him.  

MHO
Tess :-)