Could Snape ever be a hero?/Snape a coward?

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 135588

> Alla:
> 
> It is just speculation, obviously and I am NOT saying that Snap had 
been a coward all the time, but I am betting that he WAS a coward 
during  one of very defining moments in his life.

Dungrollin:
What would you think of him if the cowardice turns out to be Snape 
having cried in a corner as a child, rather than trying to protect his 
witch mother from his abusive muggle father?