Sadistic!Snape? (was:Snape's canon opposite/ Proving loyalty...)

[Abby]

No: HPFGUIDX 140257

*sighs* You have driven me to it, you all start an interesting discussion and I, a natural born lurker, am posting. And when 
I should be studying for college too. . .  blast.

I just want to ask some questions; who among you have not 
delighted in making in a person we dislike feel bad? If we have 
personal enemies do we not rejoice, secretly or perhaps not so 
secretly if they get hurt? Don't we go out of our way to make 
those people feel uncomfortable? Is this the absolute sadism? 
How many of us here, have forgiven our childhood enemies? Would 
we be able to face them and be polite? Or am I the only deeply 
flawed individual here?

Whatever Snape is, be he ESE! (what does that stand for anyway? 
I mean, I guess it means something to do with "Snape is Evil!" 
For that matter what do all those odd little like Acid Pops 
stand for?) or anything else, he seems to be JKR's "human" 
character. Dumbledore is the good, while Voldemort is evil 
incarnate*, but Snape is just human. And he shows the worst 
traits humans have to offer:  he's mean, nasty, holds grudges, 
is vicious, shows favoritism, and can kill.† He also has some 
of the better traits of humans: he's intelligent, has sheer 
creativity, and almost noble at times (GoF in particular; the hospital bit at the end got me sort of liking him.)

I've met people were not "particularly pleasant" people, so 
perhaps I've had to learn that "nice does not equal good," 
earlier than most.

Sorry about the bad grammar, it's late now. Just thought I'd 
point out that we are all guilty of being human.

Abby who will be murdered by vmonte.
 

* And like all evil just a bit. . . dumb. Let's just say he has 
not won my respect. Honestly some of his plans are just. . . 
dumb; indeed I lost a great deal of respect for Harry for falling 
for the trap in OOTP. I figured it out myself and Harry acted 
like an idiot. Well, I think he and Voldemort are evenly matched 
then. If Harry was up against brains he'd be dead meat. Were it 
not for the fact that Harry is the main character, I wouldn't be 
giving him good odds against Snape. Some part of me wants him to 
be a bad guy, just so we can get a decent bad guy for once.

† Oh yes, and he has the most noticeable sign of evil . . . he's ugly.  Well he looks evil so he must be.