Why did Snape react so angrily to being called a 'Coward' ??

[Marisa Crosset]

No: HPFGUIDX 133879

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ladi lyndi 
<ladilyndi at y...> wrote:

> What if the please was really for Snape to choose that which is 
right over that which is easy?  To choose the light over the dark?  
To choose to sacrifice ones life for the sake of others?  By killing 
Dumbledore, Snape chose to do that which is easy instead of 
standing up for what is right and turning his back on Voldemort.

Marisa writes:

But where is it ever indicated that DD would have become aware 
of Snape's betrayal in those moments before his death. DD 
pleads, "Severus.." from the moment that Snape walks through 
the door. Just doesn't seem likely that Snape's appearance on 
the rooftop was proof to DD that Snape's loyalties lay with the 
DE's.

Dunno. As I've said before, if Snape has truly betrayed DD then 
the entire fabric of the series has changed. Everything must be 
reinterpreted in that light -- including my favorite scene from GOF 
when DD tells Snape (paraphrasing), "You know what you must 
do," and Snape turns on his heals, no questions asked, to risk 
his life returning to the death eaters.

I've never really liked Snape. Always hated the way he treated 
Harry, Hermione and Neville. Always so unfair and preferential to 
the Slytherins. Real easy to hate. Yet, in GOF, I believe he proved 
his allegiance. So that says to me that he doesn't have to be an 
all around good guy to be on the side of "good."

And, yes, he continues his Snapely ways in OoTP, but it became 
increasingly difficult to doubt his loyalty. Yet, we are supposed to 
believe, from chapter two on, that Snape is really loyal to LV? 
Well, we are definitely meant to question, examine, ponder...and 
in the end, it does seem rather obvious or does it?

Marisa