OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 156888

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Snow (me) previously:
> 
> Or if Snape is good and bad
and Just Out for Himself! 

GIANT SNIP

GIANT SNIP

FEE FI FO FUM
GIANT SNIPS AT THE ENGLISHMAN


> 
> Snape is trapped. To move forward he has to go back. 
> You don't just turn in your resignation to the deatheater brigade 
and 
> to be purely accepted back into the fold you would have to really 
> appear to be loyal to its cause. Dumbledore covered Snape royally 
on 
> that front even though it was with his own blood. Dumbledore was 
> Snape's only protection to reach his goal, now he has to go back 
to 
> ensure the fate of going forward into the future.  
> 
> Snape is out for himself; it's just that his goal lies parallel 
with 
> Dumbledore's plan and Harry's future. The one thing they all have 
in 
> common is the demise of Voldemort. 
> 
> Cheers
> Snow
>

Randy replies.

I really like this scenario.  It makes Snape a very well-written 
character with complexities that are only understood in the context 
of many situations.  He is not to be trusted completely, but we must 
trust him in the performance of our immediate tasks in Book Seven.  
He does not like Harry, but he must encourage him to be able to use 
him in Book Seven to acheive his own ends.

He has a bit of Gollum in him.  He goes along with the Hobbits in 
order to try to get his precious ring back.  He never tells the 
Hobbits about the Spider ahead.  He does know the way to Mordor and 
supplies information that the Hobbits need to fulfill their tasks.  
He is never to be completely trusted, but must be trusted during the 
journey (with a watchful eye of course).

I think you have done an excellent job of defining Snape!

IMO, Snape is the character who embodies the concept of Envy in this 
series.  He envies the power and adulation that others get while he 
nevers receives credit for his accomplishments.  Perhaps he will 
receive this credit only if he dies in the effort to destroy 
Voldemort.  

On the other hand, maybe Snape opens a small Potions Shop in 
Diagonally after the war.  He could marry a nice witch and go on to 
have 2.5 kids and worry about taxes and lawn care and such.;0)