Could Snape ever be a hero?

[saidicam29]

No: HPFGUIDX 135628

Phoenixgod:

> I can think of at least one reason. Snape is smart enough to have 
> put together the prophecy from what little he heard the same way Ron 
> and Hermione did. He might want to keep Harry alive to eventually 
> take down Voldemort, trusting the prophecy to give Harry the power, 
> so that Snape can step into the power vacumn left behind. With DD 
> and Voldemort dead, Snape would have a lot of room to play Dark 
> Lord. Playing both sides basically.


That's a possibility, but as I've read the books I honestly never got
the impression Snape wanted, or was the type, to be the head of
anything.   He doesn't seem like a particularly ambitious person to
me.  If this is his plan, then he is indeed an extraordinarily cunning
man to fool every person he has had contact with all these years,
including the two most powerful wizards of the time.

Saidicam29