Grey!Snape's Demise

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 162935

Yes, it's true, I'm putting a stake in Grey!Snape as a possible theory 
from my perspective. There are too many problems with him as others 
have pointed out and when you find yourself convincing no one after two 
weeks, the word delusional starts to creep into your brain <g>.  I 
appeciate everyone who responded because you guys helped me organize my 
thoughts and hopefully it was interesting and not too tedious (hey, 
keep that part to yourselves!).

If nothing else I have a better sense of why adult Snape comes across 
as so amorphous to me and not to most others and now I can blame JKR--
she's the one who insists on building a character by omission. (And 
there's young Snape to look forward to since I can't find a point of 
identification with adult Snape, his story looked *very* promising from 
the snippets in OOTP.)

SSSusan's post was a really great wrap-up of some possible positions 
within DDM!Snape and she incorporated what I felt like were the best 
parts of Grey:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/162930

Jen, noting that if book 7 proves Snape was always loyal but somewhat 
morally and personally ambiguous, she'll dust off Grey!Snape with 
glee.  But she doesn't really expect that to happen.