What are your hopes and fears for Severus Snape?

[mz_annethrope]

No: HPFGUIDX 128099


"lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> wrote:
> What are your hopes for the character of Severus Snape?  Where 
> would you like to see his character going.  On the other hand, 
> what are your fears about where you think his character WILL go?


mz_annethrope:

Ok, here are my hopes:

1) That he remain enigmatic to the bitter end.
2) That the end is bitter, but only in a figurative sense. I 
want him disgruntled as usual, whether he's dead or alive.
3) That we will find out why Dumbledore trusts Snape.
4) That I find Dumbledore's reasons inadequate for me to embrace 
them. (My bets are on Dumbledore's reasons being that Snape  
confessed to Dumbledore that he helped concoct the potion that 
keeps Voldemort from dying.)
5) That we at least get hints about about Snape's patronus and 
animagus.
6) That we find out if Snape were the fly on the wall (or spider, 
or cockroach, or bat, or crow) that overheard the prophecy, but 
only if he were the one who overheard it. This might explain why 
he is so nasty to Neville; then again it might not. Then again, 
this scenario may be too cruel.
7) That Harry come to his own in his dealings with Snape (he 
showed hints that he's doing this when he told Snape he was 
figuring out what curse he'd do on Draco) and that the repartee 
gets really good!

And now my fears:

1) That Snape will end up being just a baddie.
2) That Snape will end up being just a baddie who does something 
redemptive.

Also noted: according to my dictionary of surnames "Snape" means 
either a "boggy patch" or "a place where sheep snuffle for grass."

Let Snape always be SSSSnape!

mz_annethrope