Snape and Harry again (forgive me for beating a dead horse)

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Ally:
> 5.  FreedomNow!Snape - Snape really hates being a slave to 
>Voldemort, having been basically manipulated into his service.  He 
>is still morally ambiguous and mean-spirited at heart, genuinely 
>hates Harry and loathes most of the students
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> And Oscar-Winner!
> Snape is my least favorite.  I DO NOT subscribe to the notion that 
> Snape is really a sweetheart forced to play a charade to fool the 
> DEs.  He's nasty at heart in my mind - I just don't think that 
> necessarily means he's evil.


Hi!  Just joined.  Sorry to harp on an old discussion, but I can't 
help saying that I completely agree with the dismissal of Oscar-
Winner!Snape. Let us not forget what Harry saw once when he entered 
Snape's memories:

"a hook-nosed man was shouting at a cowering woman, while a small 
dark-haired boy [presumably Snape] cried in a corner..." (OotP, p 
591, US version)

These are not the type of memories that make for a happy childhood; 
they are they type that help in creating very UNBALANCED adults, 
which Snape clearly is.  He's horrible, but that doesn't mean he's 
evil.  Good point, Ally!!!  He's horrible, yes, but perhaps due, at 
least in part, to his horrible childhood?  Maybe his affinity for 
the Dark Arts led him to Voldy and the DE initially, and he was 
disappointed when he didn't find whatever he was looking for?  Maybe 
this accounts for how DD was able to "turn" him?

Just postulating.  Please, don't rip me to shreds -- I'm a newbie!!

Lisa Marie