Snape the Traitor or is there one other

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I really can't see him actually *liking* Draco. He 
> sucks up to him and his awful dad because it's the only way to spy 
on 
> them. I can see him in the last novel punching Lucius (or the 
wizard 
> equivalent) and saying, "By the way, Draco, I never did like you. 
You 
> are a little *** and I'd rather be stuck in a room with Harry 
Potter 
> forever than spend another class with you." Sue B


I now find Snape one of the most interesting and complex characters 
in the series. For whatever reason, he turned his back on Voldemort.
I wonder why? Did V kill or torture someone he cared about?

Unfortunately, one of his defining characteristics is his hatred for 
James Potter and Sirius Black. (And we learn in the OoP that Snape 
has some basis for that hatred). And, in some ways, like Sirius, he 
cannot separate Harry from James. 

He bonds with Draco Malfoy because Draco, too, hates Harry.
Yet, Snape saved Harry's life in the Philosopher's Stone, and at the 
end of the GoF. He did give Umbridge fake Veritaserum, etc. etc.
He is a man who does his duty with great distaste.

Susan McGee