Am I the only one...

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Doddie <doddiemoemoe at y...> wrote:
> I am absolutely livid with Snape but not for Killing 
> Dumbledore..but for telling Voldemort about the prophecy!
> 
> Sheesh, look at what Snape's actions started!
> 
> Murder of the Potters, torture of the Longbottoms!!
> 
> And then he has the nerve to be snide and unpleasant among other 
> things to both Harry and Neville when they are around him.(He 
> cannot even manage cool indifference!)
>
> DD will have his reasons for trusting Snape...DD made his choice!
> 
> Harry and Neville not much of a reason at all to trust Snape.
> 
> Much of Snape's behavior in HBP may be able to be 
> explained/reasoned away...but not his treatment of Harry, and not
> his treatment of Neville and not even his continued loathing of 
> James in the previous five books...Snape did, after all, have a 
> hand in James death and he owed James a life debt no less!!!!! 


Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but it's possible of course 
that the reason Snape is so loathsome towards Harry, Neville and 
the memory of James is because he secretly hates himself for being 
the cause of everything that's happened. We already know Snape is 
horrible and humourless - this doesn't make him evil. Remember what 
Dumbledore said in OotP about bad people not necessarily being on 
the side of evil (in regards to Dolores Umbridge - incidentally one of the juiciest and most vile villains ever written!). Harry and Neville are the living embodiments of Snape's failure to be good 
and he hates them for it. Besides, if it weren't for Snape the prophecy would never have fulfilled itself as Dumbledore explained countless times it must. I know JKR hasn't finished LOTR, but consider Snape the Gollum of the series...

"Clementine"