Is Snape good or evil?

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No: HPFGUIDX 148512

Considering this "is Snape good or evil" business I can think of 5
possibilities, I list them below from least likely to most likely. I'm
almost sure #1 is untrue because I don't see any way to make an
interesting book with that premise, and I'll bet money book 7 will be
interesting.

1) Dumbledore is not dead (boring) so Snape is (yawn) good.

2) Snape killed Dumbledore but it turns out that Dumbledore was evil
so Snape is good. (after 6 books I don't think any writer could turn
Dumbledore evil, not even JKR)

3) Snape killed Dumbledore but did so on Dumbledore's orders. (very
difficult to find a viable reason Dumbledore would order such a thing
and even if he did Snape would still be evil, at least in my book)

4) Snape killed Dumbledore to aid Voldemort so Snape is evil. (this is
the conventional interpretation but JKR is seldom conventional)

5) Snape killed Dumbledore to aid himself so Snape is evil. (Snape was
the third most powerful wizard in the world but he wants to be number
one, he killed one and made sure Harry was alive and healthy to kill
the other)

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