Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 122052



Tonks:

1. I think it is possible for someone to be a good person (not evil) 
and still an unpleasant person to be around.  It is also possible to 
be an evil person and have everyone like you.  A very smart 
psychopath can pull that off.  So I think that being good or evil is 
the state of ones soul, while being nice or nasty is a behavioral 
thing. A fully developed mentally healthy person would be both good 
and nice.  There are not too many of those people around.  Most of 
us are flawed in one way or another.  Even otherwise good and nice 
people do nasty things at times.
 
 

Alla:

Thank you, Tonks. You helped me understand VERY important thing. If 
Snape defenders indeed use word "nice" as "pleasant person to be 
around", then YES it is indeed possible to be a good person and 
unpleasant person to be around, BUT I apply word nice as more 
than "pleasant person to be around", but indeed as general attitude 
to human beings around oneself.

I maintain that Snape is guilty of significantly worse atttitude 
towards human beings around him (who may I add cannot really defend 
themselves from his abuse) than just "unpleasantness".


Tonks:

So I do think that we, who are both good and kind, should cut Snape 
a little slack.  He has had a rough life, he has made his mistakes 
(the full cost of which we do not know), and we need to have some 
compassion.  Yes, even with the nasty bastard himself.  If DD says 
that Snape is OK, I trust DD's judgment.  Therefore Snape is a good 
person, a forgiven person with his scars still so visible to us all.


Alla:

Well, it is good that you trust Dumbledore still. I don't trust him 
as good judge of character anymore. He misjudged people way to many 
times for my liking.

Who is to say that he is not mistaken with Snape?

But, I do want Snape to be redeemed at the end, I just don't think 
that he is YET.


Just my opinion,

Alla