[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Snape nice or good?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 127397

>>> --- JaanisE wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
>> Magda:
>> Well, that's the only "good" that really counts in the end, isn't
>> it?
> 
> Nora:
> Any means to achieve an end?  Not a principle that's gotten 
> unqualified support so far in the series, it seems to me.  One 
> question which is not really solvable right now is whether it is 
> (good, right, take your pick of adjectives) to tolerate behavior
> that 
> is generally not considered (insert positive adjective here)
> because 
> the person carrying it out is also responsible for things that are 
> (second positive adjective here).
 

I don't think it's that philosophical a question.  At the end of the
day a good guy is someone who's on the side of right, not someone
who's just pleasant or nice or "not a git" or "people like us".

I would phrase your principle a different way: it's important to be
able to look past the superficial into the real person before judging
them.  Harry hasn't yet learned this lesson; it's still rather scary
how he handed over the map to Fake!Moody in GOF largely on the basis
of an apparent mutual distaste for Snape.

Magda


		
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