[HPforGrownups] Is Snape nice or good?

[JaanisE]

No: HPFGUIDX 127118



> Bookworm:
> I couldn't find a quote where JKR says Snape isn't a "good guy".  I
> dod find one where she said is isn't a "nice guy".  A subtle 
> difference there.

Yes, Bookworm and Julie, let it be a *nice* guy, my apologies. But the
important part is what people understand when they hear someone is a
good guy. And generally they're taken as more or less *nice*
automatically.

I was adding my note where you said it's hard to believe that Snape is
really good and why Dumbledore trusts him if he's generally so mean,
stubborn etc. So, Snape really is not so good after all, he's horrible,
sadistic, not pleasant - from the quotes. We only call him good because
he's on the OotP's side.

And what about my example of Umbridge? Is she good or bad? She's neither
on DE nor OotP side, I suppose?

Jaanis