This Snape hater accepts Snape is good-ish

[Rebecca Hoskins]

No: HPFGUIDX 138004

Hagrid <aussie_lol at y...> wrote:
 
> If Snape is a full DE, Snape will tell LV of the hunt for Horcruxes 
> now. 

True.
I don't think that snape know about the horcruxes. Dumbledore does 
not seem to have confided in anyone apart from Harry (and Ron and 
Hermione). If Voldemort is to be defeated it is vitally important 
that no word of the search for the horcruxes gets back to Voldemort 
and, spies aside, LV is a highly accomplished legilimens. Noone can 
know.

aussie
> DID SNAPE KNOW ABOUT HORCRUXES?-
> Snape would have to know what kind of injury DD had the first time 
> DD cured him after the ring.

I disagree. All snape would have needed to know was that Dumbledore 
had fallen foul of some dark magic bound to an object, which is not 
uncommon in the HP world, think back to the snuff box in the house of 
black, or the opal necklace!

aussie
> If that happens, alarms would be set at each site to kill Harry ... 
> or they will be hidden more thoroughly than they have for the last 
> 50 years.
 
Precisely.

aussie
> Since JKR is not planning another 50 books, but wants to wrap it up 
> with #7, ... I'm sorry to say this, but ... SNAPE IS NOT EVI- ... I 
> can't say it (wimpers).

Snape is not a particularly nice person but, as Sirius tells us in 
OotP, the world is not divided simply into death eaters and good 
people. There are plenty of bad people who are not death eaters. I 
believe snape to be one of them. But I do acknowledge that all of the 
subtly hidden pointers that this is indeed the case may be just an 
elaborate double-bluff on the part of JKR. Snape may indeed be as 
much of a baddy as he seems at face value.

BUT, please consider, for all that Snape bullies and enjoys watching 
people suffer humiliation, he does not seem to take pleasure in 
physical pain. Unlike Umbridge he has never used phsical pain as a 
punishment, and he certainly stopped Amycus from Crucio-ing Harry 
very promptly. Given how much he loathes Harry, it is almost a little 
surprising that he didn't stand there and gloat for a while before 
checking Amycus' spell. So surprising indeed, that it makes me wonder 
whether there is a little bit of good hidden in there after all.

Whatever Snape's alignment, I'm certain that he is going to have a 
highly significant part to play in the final destruction of Lord 
Voldemort.
  

Rebecca