Snape going back? (was: Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 105273

[SSS:
I pulled one statement out & put it at the top to argue a point, 
Salit; hope you don't mind.]

Salit wrote:
> Witness how the relationship between Harry and Snape is getting 
> worse through each book. 


SSSusan:
*Is* it, though??  Could you say more about this?  I know that 
Occlumency ended on ...ahem...a rather bad note, with Snape seething 
in anger.  At first, Harry liked the "new Snape" in class [he ignored 
Harry], but then Snape "whoops" Harry's potion vial, and so Harry was 
seething in anger, too.

I concede all of that.

But I suspect that, in spite of his stubborness and his protestations 
at the end of OoP, Harry *will* begin to really HEAR DD's words about 
Snape in book 6 (or book 7).  Don't get me wrong, I don't think 
there's any chance in the world that they'll ever be buddies, but I 
think at some point a partial, grudging respect will appear from 
Harry for Snape.  If Harry doesn't achieve an OWL with sufficiently 
high marks to be taken into Snape's 6th year Potions class, it just 
might provide just the break from Snape that Harry needs to get 
BEYOND Snape's treatment of him in class just a bit.  If that 
happens, I could see things "easing up" a bit between them and maybe, 
just maybe, Harry someday acknowledging a wee bit of what Snape has 
done for him and DD and the Order.

I can't say I'm positive of all this, of course, but we do know that 
much more is coming from JKR on Severus, and I'm not convinced that 
their relationship is getting *worse*.  

Want to try to convine me otherwise? :-)


Salit:
> My personal hunch (for what it is worth) that Snape will be forced 
> to make a choice in the coming books. After the almost inevitable 
> death of Dumbledore - which side will he be on. Snape's friends 
> (such as there are), loyalties, etc. are all in Voldemort's camp. 
> The central figure (post Dumbledore) in the fight against Voldemort 
> is Harry, whom he utterly detests. ...
> Add the history (his hatered of Harry's father, distaste of his 
> mother's muggle origin combined with what I suspect was a crush on 
> her, etc.) and I think it is highly likely that Snape will end up 
> going back to the dark side.


SSSusan:
I think you're right that it's likely DD will die before series end, 
and so perhaps you may be right that the time may come when Snape is 
forced to make a choice (again).  Would it be to go back to the dark 
side?  ARE his loyalties & friends in Voldy's camp?  Possibly, and it 
could happen, of course.  But I actually think his "friendship" 
and "loyalty" to Lucius are a put-on, and I think that he is closer 
to certain members of the Hogwarts staff [McGonagall, for instance] 
than many people seem to believe. *I* don't think Snape will go 
back.  

But that's part of the fun of it all--who knows?

Siriusly Snapey Susan