"revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face"

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 135318

dan wrote:
> I haven't read an entirely convincing, Snape-based explanation for 
it,
> is all I'm saying <snip> the revulsion and hatred needs a real 
> explanation, not a rationalization.

Well, no explanation is going to be "entirely convincing."  If 
Rowling wanted us to be entirely convinced, she would have seen to 
it that we were.  She didn't.  If she had wanted us to be convinced, 
for example, she would have written something more like this:

Snape glared balefully at Dumbledore, years of disgust and loathing 
for the old man coming to the surface at last.  

"Severus...please..."

But a look of triumph washed over Snape's harsh face. "Please what, 
old man?  'Please don't kill me'?  I've been waiting for this moment 
for years, you pathetic, crumbling excuse for a wizard...Aveda 
Kedavra!" 

That is *not* how the text reads.  And there will be no "real" 
explanation until book 7.  I believe Snape did not want to kill 
Dumbledore, dreaded doing it, and regretted doing it.  But did it 
because it had to be done.  The circumstances of that have yet to be 
revealed.  The mere fact that Rowling leaves Snape's motivations and 
his feelings suspect is cause enough for doubt.

And ask yourself this...if you "had" to kill something you loved...a 
beloved dog lying half-dead in the road, injured beyond recovery by 
a passing car, what look, as you pulled the trigger, would be on 
*your* face?  

Horror.  Revulsion.  Maybe even something that looked like hate.  

But that doesn't mean you want to kill your dog.     

Leslie41