OOP reading: an idea about Snape

[brinforest]

No: HPFGUIDX 65106


I just had an idea about Snape, so please bear with me - it's not 
every day I get original plot prediction ideas.

When JKR was discussing Snape with Stephen Fry at Albert Hall, she 
said something to the effect of "don't like him too much though", 
and "he's not completely nice" or something. 

This suddenly reminded me of a character called Hawkin in The Dark 
is Rising, which I recently reread. He was a mortal whose help 
Merriman Lyon (non-mortal, father figure to Hawkin and mentor to the 
young main character Will Stanton) had to rely on to carry out an 
important, predestined task that involved subjecting Hawkin to 
mortal danger. Hawkin was perfectly willing to do this, and loyal to 
Merriman, whom he loved and trusted; he completed his part, but 
while doing so, he came to fully realise the danger he was subjected 
to by his trusted father figure. His resentment then led him to 
betray the good side. (This was also known beforehand by Merriman.) 
As a kind of punishment for his betrayal, Hawkin ended up with 
another task that ruined his life (understatement of the year), and 
he was *eventually* killed by the evil side.

Snape as Hawkin... I'm too lazy to think up examples of what exactly 
might happen, but the sequence of loyalty to trusted old mentor - 
full realisation of danger to self - mentor's apparent indifference 
to this - resentment - betrayal suddenly seems kind of appealing. 
Has anyone read TDIR recently? What do you think? 

Brin