Choices (wasThe Unloved Son (was Could I be wrong about Snape being evil?))

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 156716

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> Mike:

> Now here comes an orphaned Severus, and DD isn't going to make the 
> same mistake twice. DD decides to intervene and become Snape's 
> surrogate, part-time father figure. I will go out on a limb and say 
> that DD recruited Snape to *our side* while he was still a student. 
> Naturally, Snape began to idolize DD much the same as Harry does, 
> with one big difference. Snape *choses* to fight for the side 
> of 'Light' and becomes a DE with the clear intention of 
infiltrating 
> and undermining LV's organization. Harry, when all is said and 
done, 
> got *chosen*, became the *chosen one* without making a choice 
> himself. So DD has to become active in Harry's life, tinker around 
> the edges to ensure Harry gets all the right training/knowledge. He 
> relegates Snape to fellow LV opposer and even enlists him to take 
> part in the training Harry plan. This is another reason for Snape's 
> jealousy, he made an active *choice* to be on DD's side and is 
being 
> supplanted by this brat that had celebrity handed to him.

I hate this idea more than words can say. I have reconciled myself 
that I will probably never see Snape get the punishment I think he 
deserves (and deserved long before the lightning struck tower) just 
as I have reconciled that Ginny will be the lasting pairing for Harry 
no matter how much I hate her.  But if JKR goes out and turns Snape 
into an uber-hero who was on the right side the whole time, no 
mistakes made, then I will give away my books and never read them 
anything about Harry Potter again.  the books are entitled Harry 
Potter and the *Blank*.  For Snape to have chosen to be a hero when 
he was a teenager not only is a boring story choice, but takes away 
from Harry, the guy who is supposed to be the hero of the story.

Snape at least becomes marginally more interesting if he is a flawed 
man who made mistakes, tries to make up for them, and continues to 
make mistakes along the way based on his human falliblities.  I still 
hope to see bad things happen to him and for someone to call him on 
all his crap from the first five books but like I said, I'm not 
holding my breath.

Snape/Lily is interesting. I think it could be done well, but I don't 
have faith in JKR to do it well after what I see as the shipping 
debacle of Half Blood Prince. Maybe a Snape/Lily romantic history 
might knock Saint Lily off her pedestal.

why yes, I am a little bitter about the current state of the Harry 
Potter series :)

phoenixgod2000