[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry IS Snape.

[Ralph Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 141272

RM -

this assumes facts not yet in evidence, (or canon). We don't  know for sure
yet how Snape "turned out" 

Eggplant -

It is canon that Snape pushed a very nice defenseless old man out of a tower
to his death; I realizes that is not enough to convince some that the man
is not a hero but it is sufficient for me because at this point I cannot
conceive of any way to produce a good book 7 and also a good Snape. 

RM - 

Until we have canon explaining exactly what the "please" on the tower meant,
and a definitive explanation for what Harry saw rising from the burial,
among other things, we are like the blind man who touchs an elephant's trunk
and assumes that the elephant is a snake-like animal. We need to see the
whole picture to know the truth. I'm not saying that your viewpoint is not
a valid one, I am saying that it hasn't been proven to be the only true
and correct one.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of
in your philosophy" Hamlet, Act 1 Scene V