Hearing from the Great Middle

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No: HPFGUIDX 140154

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> But that's just me.  I'm interested in hearing what other members of 
> the Great Middle think.

Marianne:

Ditto on your comments re: Snape's mysteriousness.  Many people have 
commented that the aura of mystery around Snape is one of the things 
they have found fascinating about him.  I've never really understood 
that because I've always felt that DD could explain Snape pretty 
quickly to Harry in one of his end-of-book summations which would have 
stripped away a lot of the mystery rather quickly.

I'm firmly in the OFH!Snape camp.  I'm not going to go through reams 
of canon, since anyone who's interested can read the past 2 months of 
Snape posts to look all the arguments.  For me, it comes down to my 
gut feeling of the character.  I really don't like Snape.  Never have, 
never will.  He embodies too many characteristics that I find not at 
all admirable.  

And that's chiefly why I'm not in the ESE camp.  I'm trying my utmost 
to give him the benefit of the doubt. I appreciate reading the 
comments of Snape supporters because I know I am deeply biased against 
him.  However, should he prove at the end to be ESE, I will feel a 
great surge of relief and open a bottle of champagne.

ESG!Snape doesn't click for me, either, maybe because I've never got a 
feeling from the character that he believes in fighting for what's 
right because that's what a moral person is supposed to do. Granted 
one doesn't have to be a saint to do what's right, but I've never felt 
that Snape has any aura of selflessness about him; about doing things 
because they're the right thing to do. 

Marianne