Snape less comic?

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 150346

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:

> Snape's grudges  are seen to have some real foundation and I expect 
> that to continue.  They are deep and scary, but that is not 
> necessarily his fault. Remember, I see him as the unrecognized 
> victim of an attempted murder that has to be brought to light in 
> order for the fabric of society to be mended.  A job for a hero, 
> probably named Harry.

I've seen your argument before, but being as I don't buy ESE!Lupin, 
it's hard for me to buy the rest of your interpretation which hinges 
upon that.

But there is an objective way in which Snape has been shown as less 
comic through the series: the depth of his involvement with the DEs.  
Think about how differently PoA and GoF read when you know the 
revelation at the end of GoF (or even some of the earlier books); 
we've known it for so long that his past affiliations have become 
almost passe.  And then in OotP we get intimations of some sneaky 
activities, and then in HBP we get a Harry-POV-free look into Snape 
in his spying business or something like it, and we find out how deep 
his involvement went.  Even if he's atoning for his role in James and 
Lily's death, not exactly comic, is it?

> DDM!Snape is not a child or a criminal. He has the right to decide
> for himself whether he wants to change or not.

And then society and every individual person has the right to decide, 
if he has decided not to change, whether he is going to be an 
accepted member, someone who you would want to associate with, or 
shunned as someone unwilling to work within the social contract.

It cuts both ways.

-Nora is not even going to pull Hobbes into the discussion, after all