[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Fury/The Shrieking Shack-did Snape have ulterior motives?/Poor snape

[Alexandra Vieira]

No: HPFGUIDX 85862


tanzgabu said:
 Snape also thought that Black was a murderer and the such. Well, he's been
around many of those, and surely when they're caught they try to
make up excuses to get off don't they? Along with all of these other
emotional things, Snape *might possibly* have had some logic
working, at least beforehand, that Sirius and Lupin might try to
weasel their way out of the situation. So he probably came into the
shrieking shack already ready to not listen to anything they said.
If he had made a habit out of believing every murderers story, where
would he be now? He doesn't really come off as a trusting person,
so... I think if most of us had been in the position, even without
all of the emotional entanglements he has, that we wouldn't believe
the story they were putting forward. It would seem like some
desperate attempt to go free. And what fool would buy into a
killer's story? Certainly not Snape, in his mind. 

Alexandra (me):
 I would very much agree with all you said if it hadn't been about Snape.
Yes ok, sure when a person is used to dealing with murderers and DE and LV
and the Dark Arts world, one gets suspicious. But I've just re-read PoA and
specially the part of them in Shrieking Shack and believe me, Snape returned
to his childhood there, as if he had caught MWPP in deep trouble and was
going to get them expelled! He was really excited about it! It was *his*
moment! He wasn't going to let
reason get in the way, he wasn't even listening. It had nothing to do with
his sense of suspicion.

I'm liking Snape's character more and more since I've joined this group :-)
at first I thought he was just the nasty bad guy and that was it, there's
one Snape in every story. Reading your posts made me re-read the books and
analyse more carefuly his character and realize, there's much more to Snape
than meets the eye. I would like to think he had a very dificult childhood
(he did has Harry saw) and teenagehood (is that a word? hope you get my
meaning)
and he made a great effort to think things through
and make himself take the right atitude. Snape is the kind of person who has
every reason to become a DE. I'm not saying he has the right to become one,
I'm just saying that it would be understandable that he becomes one and
stays one. Never the less, he chose not to remain a DE! Now you might argue
that maybe he didn't choose to abandon the dark arts world but was forced to
do it for some reason, maybe to save his skin or something or the sort. But
I say no! He *chose* to leave! Why do I think that? Because Dumbledore
trusts him! And Dumbledore thinks that it is our actions, far more than our
abilities, that show who we truly are! He *chose*! If we put aside the
ESE!Dumbledore theory we must accept that Dumbledore's actions are very
often the right ones and he is (almost) always right in his decisions. He
wouldn't trust someone unless he had really strong reasons for it.
Of course, he *is* really nasty and unpleasant and all that. Despite the
fact that he managed to come to the "good side" he is still a very bitter
person for his (still unknown) past. And although he can be very irritating
sometimes I would like to see him having, if not a happy, at least a not so
bad, ending. He does deserve some slack.

I'm sorry this turned out to be a "poor-snape" post but I really wanted to
say this and know if somebody shares my feelings about Snape. I know Eloise
probably does ;-)

Cheers
Alexandra