Snape:second chance?

[Lisa (Jennings) Mamula]

No: HPFGUIDX 115654



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "legobaty29" <legobaty29 at y...> 
wrote:
> I agree with
> Lisa Marie that Snape's first chance was used up when he joined the 
> Death Eaters. I know that Dumbledore trusts him, but I wonder whether 
> he will ever be tempted to re-join Voldemort?  It has been suggested 
> that he won't (I think he touched on the subject during a conversation 
> with Karkaroff?) but the mark on his arm becomes stronger when Voldemort
> is around, and I am thinking a) once you've been a Death Eater you can 
> never get rid of the mark or b) Snape has never got rid of the mark 
> because there's a thin chance he still has an allegiance there.


LisaMarie answers:
Good suggestions!  I, however, am holding out for c) Snape *is* stuck with the 
Mark, but he wouldn't want to remove it if he could, as that would seriously 
hinder his double-agent role when LV found that the Mark was missing!!

As wholly nasty as he is to everyone but his "chosen few,"  I can't help but love 
Snape.  I think that he is definitely emotionally damaged (horrible childhood), 
and that the nastiness started there, helped along by 1) being in Slytherin, 
where everyone is SUCH a ray of sunshine, and 2) being tormented by 
James and Sirius (and others?) for his interest in the Dark Arts.  But I also 
think that he is wholly loyal to DD and vital to the Order, and that someday 
(probably not until late in book 6 or in book 7) Dear Severus will finally be 
revealed as TrueMoralConversion!Snape at last.  As I have stated in another 
post, I really think that both he and Harry will have to eventually let go of their 
prejudices and learn to respect one another, in order to accomplish the goal: 
vanquishing LV and the DE.  (I also think the unadulterated hatred he 
displays toward Harry & co. is helpful to his "undercover" status; he *is* good 
friends with Lucius Malfoy, let us not forget!)

LisaMarie