Is Snape good or evil?.

[eggplant107]

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"pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

 > Are you saying Harry didn't need to be punished?

Yes. 

> Harry may have used the curse in self-defense

That's right self defense. In my opinion Harry did absolutely nothing
wrong. All Harry did was walk into the boy's bathroom and without
warning Draco attacked him with an unforgivable curse. Harry would
have been entirely justified if he'd killed Draco.

> he learned it because he thought it would be fun to try

I can sympathize with that, it would be fun to try.

> he was planning to use it on McClaggen, remember?

Yes but he didn't use it on McClaggen, fortunatel. I don't like
McClaggen much but he didn't deserve that; and you can't put somebody
in jail for what they ALMOST did.

> And he hid the book hoping he would 
> be able to use it again.

Good for Harry! If I were in Harry's position I'd do exactly the same
thing, there is power in that book and there is no way I'd throw it away.

> Snape might have respected Harry more if he'd
> known the last part of the prophecy.

Oh I think Snape has quite a bit of respect for Harry, not that he'd
ever tell anybody. The reason Dumbledore thought Snape only heard only
the first half of the prophecy is that he knew Snape only told
Voldemort about the first half, but I think Snape heard every word of
it. Snape knew the first half would make Voldemort want to attack the
baby Harry, and from the second half he knew that would be very
dangerous. Snape wanted Voldemort dead just as he wanted Dumbledore dead.

Eggplant