been gone a while. . .

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 139953

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snipsnapsnurr" 
<snipsnapsnurr at y...> wrote:
> i've been moving so i haven't kept up and there are about a million 
> posts that i missed. have we at least agreed that snape is not evil?

zgirnius:
I'm a fairly new member (joined in July), so I'm not sure how to take 
this, not being familiar with your sense of humor. If this was 
intended to be a joke, I thank you, as I have not laughed this hard 
in weeks. Brilliant!

Seriously, though, I think it is likely that this group will still be 
debating this point long after Book 7 comes out.

(Especially as phrased. Not evil? Not on Voldemort's side, we might 
hope to have definitively revealed if such is the case. But I see Not 
Evil as remaining in contention under any scenario for Book 
7...Plenty of folks seem to feel that canon Snape in Books 1 to 5 is 
evil no matter whose side he is on, because of his treatment of Harry 
and Neville and Sirius, for starters. Not to mention his actions in 
HBP! And, in fact, so evil that even if he is working for the Good 
Guys, he's irredeemable.)

If you want a recommendation of a post to read that I think deserves 
not to get lost in the thousands of posts since HBP was released, try 
post number 135892, my personal favorite post-HBP Snape post, in 
which Severelysigune makes a long, detailed, and cogent Snape is not 
evil argument. It also has the advantage that it generated lots of 
responses, so you can see a variety of the existing opinions on the 
subject. 

Or, just wait and see. The leaves at the bottom of my teacup are 
telling me that there are still more Snape posts in our future.