Dumbledore and Snape again/ Argument in the Forest again.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 137551

Brotherjib wrote:
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> These are all plausible I suppose - they simply are far less logical 
> than DD being right about Snape, and Snape being now the perfect spy!


Less logical?  Chuckle.  I think we are now at the point of 
irreconcilable perceptions.  Many agree with you.  Many of us, 
however, find just about ANYTHING more logical than a super-
conspiracy, super-spy, Puppetmaster!Dumbledore scenario.  I personally 
think such a thing would be straight out of the worst fanfiction, not 
to mention the worst comic books and the most uninspired soap operas.  
I hope that Severus turns out to be more human after the seventh book -
 not less.  And, as nrenka has pointed out, a Severus who made a 
definite decision sixteen years ago and has stuck unwaveringly to it, 
in the process becoming the world's greatest spy, one of the world's 
greatest and most successful super conspirators, and probably a martyr 
for the good, isn't particularly believable or satisfying -- 
especially since such a character threatens to displace Harry as the 
hero of the entire series.



> 
> It seems that all the Snape-Evil posters are forgetting DD's words - 
> There are things far worse than death!!

Not at all!  Many Snape-Evil people (I don't include myself with them, 
by the way, since I think Snape has definite Good AND definite Evil in 
his character) point out that the thing that is worse than death is 
having your soul ripped into shreds by murder, thus condemning 
yourself to a nightmare partial existance.  And why would Dumbledore, 
the epitome of goodness, ask someone to do that to themselves?

Lupinlore