JKR's answer to "Was Snape ever loved?"

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 134390

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at y...> wrote:
> JKR is asked directly:  "Has Snape ever been loved by anyone?"
> 
> JKR: Yes, he has, which in some ways makes him more culpable even 
> than Voldemort, who never has. 

  Personally I take this to mean Snape is more culpable because he 
must have bitterly disappointed the hopes of whoever loved him and
because he had cause to know better.

  Any way you cut it SS is guilty of terrible crimes. The question
is is he still evil or trying to redeem himself?