Is Snape good or evil?

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 148578

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, JULIA WILKES <jdwilkes45 at ...> wrote:

 To me, now 
> that Snape has shown this loyalty to LV he will be the 2nd in 
> command (so to speak) and Snape will now be able to get the 
> information that Harry will need to destroy the Horcruxes so that 
> Harry and LV will do battle in the end, which will all know will 
> happen.
>    
>   Just a thought. What do you think?
>

I agree, Harry has no chance whatsoever to find and destroy four
Horcruxes and LV without a "psychological" help from DD's picture and
Snape's inside work.

Actually, I was also thinking about something else. Someone here just
said that allowing Harry to see DD murdered would increase his hatred,
and therefore give him the mental power needed for an Unforgivable
Curse, and that's a very intersting thought, but I firmly disagree.

We already know that Harry can rely on one thing to fight LV: love.
And in this book jkr goes to great lenghts to plant the bases of a
universal love in Harry's mind.

Clearer: before, Harry's love was underdeveloped, the love of a child:
for his parents, his friends, and generally and vaguely for those of
the good side.

In this book, Harry learns to pity other people: Neville and Luna re
top on the list, but so is LV, and even Snape. All these characters
have mismatched families, difficult childness, and as such are somehow
set apart from others. Like Harry, but Harry had so far judged them
according to their response to this:

-disappear into nothingness was a little coward (Neville)
-don't care about people, weird (Luna)
-terrorise others to earn their respect, evil (LV)
-be ambitious and somtimes cruel, condemnable (Snape)

Only his own answer was good: try and make friends, be generalòly good
and such.
But in this book Harry learns that answers vary according to people,
and that he shouldn't be judgemental, but understanding. I'm sure that
in book7 he'll find out how hard it has been for Snape to kill the one
person that had ever been good to him, and in the moment he starts to
feel sad for a man that he now hates "as much as Voldemort himself"
his power to love will be at its higher, and Harry will turn
invincible. That was DD goal in never giving Harry a good motive to
trust Snape: that he should see with his won eyes and be able to pass
from hatred to compassion.

My very optimistic thoughts,

chrus