It's over, Snape is evil /Ruthless Dumbledore?/ Snape...

[princess_kat0907]

No: HPFGUIDX 138502

The time has come, finally, for me to stop voyeristically lurking in 
the shadows of this message board, and finally put in my two-cents-
worth, even if my thoughts are as deep as a half-inch mud puddle.

This whole Snape is evil, Dumbledore is foolish, yadda yadda yadda 
thing is really playing on my mind.  I want Snape to be good.  Why? 
Because I don't want Dumbledore to have died 'like that' and I trust 
Dumbledore (who, I have to keep reminding myself, is a fictional 
character) so completely that I want Snape to be everything 
Dumbledore believed him to be.  It all comes back to one point, 
however, and that point is: It doesn't matter if Snape is good or 
evil, because Harry hates him no matter what.

Well, say some, Harry is quite able to put his anger aside - look at 
his treatment of Pettigrew in Azkaban? My point is this - Harry hates 
Voldemort so much because HE KILLED HIS PARENTS.  The physical act 
was committed RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.  Who cares how Voldemort was 
able to get the information he needed in order to commit the murder 
(Pettigrew/Snape/etc), the Physical Act of Murder was committed by 
Voldemort.

I believe that right up until Snape's murder (intentional, 
accidental, pre-meditated, watever) of Dumbledore, Harry was willing 
to trust Dumbledore's belief in Snape.  I think that on arriving back 
at the tower, Harry would have rushed off to Snape's bedroom, awoken 
him, and sought his help in curing Dumbledore, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE 
HATED HIM.  Yes, Harry hated Snape, but Dumbledore trusted him, so 
Harry was willing to put his faith in that.  When Snape kills 
Dumbledore right in front of Harry, any illusions (either right or 
wrong) about Snape's evilness went out the window.  In Harry's eyes, 
Snape killed Dumbledore, in the exact same way his parents were 
killed, physically, wand-to-chest, Avada Kedavra, bang, all over.

I think that Harry's level of hatred for Snape (which is on par with 
his hatred for Voldemort because of the physical reality of their 
murders) will stop him seeking Snape's help.  Face Death by Voldemort 
or Safety from Snape? Harry's gonna pick the death option.  I don't 
think there's anything that can cure the anonymity between the two - 
Rowling has spent 6 books setting it up - it's there for a reason.

Now that I have said all that, I am completely willing to be proven 
wrong, in fact, I would enjoy it...I am so easily swayed!

Thank you all for being such an incredibly interesting group of 
people to hear/read...

-Princess Kat (who goes back to her voyerism with a sense of 
completeness)