Theory on Snape - MASSIVE

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 109331

Duffypoo wrote:
For those who asked, here it is. I apologise for the length and in 
advance to the ESE!Snape fans, but don't flame me until you read the 
last couple of sentences. ;-) My theory is that Snape is on the side 
of good and has never changed sides.  Here is why:

(MASSIVE snip)

Of course, the other side of this is that Snape was on the side of 
good, went over to LV for his own reasons, is truly spying on DD for 
LV, convinced DD he had left the the DEs, is spying on LV for DD, and 
is truly a double agent.  (This bit should make the ESE!Snape fans 
happy.)  The DoubleAgent!Snape was where my theory started, but it 
evolved into GoodGuy!Snape somehow.  My husband, who has never read 
the books but has heard my rambling about them, believes the 
DoubleAgent!Snape theory. He believes Snape is playing both ends 
against the middle so that, whoever gets vanquished in the end - good 
guys or bad guys - he'll still have a place in the structure.


Kemper responds:
Thank you so much for posting a well argued and written post!  I'm a 
ESNE!Snape fan (Ever So Not Evil), so I disagree with your husband, 
Nora, Magda and Charme. 
Your theory makes sense in the Plot and Thematically.  And here's why:
DD wouldn't hire some evil man to work with youth, and a character 
can be unlikable and still be good because "it is our choices (snip) 
that show what we truly are."  What makes Snape so intriguing and fun 
to theorize about is that he is a grey character, but as Duffypoo 
suggests (mostly), his grey is more of a concrete than it is a 
charcoal.