Why we're sure that Snape is Evil

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 153842


Hi again, I'm still thinking about Snape, as are many of you it seems :D
I have been convinced for ages that he was good, and still wish to, but I think I've found 
what it took to bring me on the Snape-is-evil side.

Oh, I'm quoting the Bible a lot: just wanted to specify that I'm not a Christian, but as JKR is 
and speaks a lot of 'redemptive pattern', 'you'll see my faith in the books' etc it seemed 
right to quote it.

Please consider this:

1. Harry must overcome LV through love (said again and again throughout all books)

2. Harry hates him

3. Harry next hates: Snape ("almost as much"), Draco Malfoy, Peter Pettigrew, the Dursleys 
and of course the DE in general - but at the end of Book 6, nothing can rival his hatred for 
Snape

4. If Harry must win through love, to me it means that he has to understand and pity LV, in 
a perfect exemple of 'praying for your enemy' Christian moral

5. Pitying LV is difficult

6. As a cunning writer, why don't give Harry a little help to feel pity and compassion for his 
enemy? After all, if Harry can pity Snape, he can afterwards pity and understand LV

7. Harry can do it, because he's a nice boy: he already felt sorry for Snape once (Book 5)

8. Now, if we accept all this, what good is there in forgiving a good man who made a 
mistake? We're all capable of that: as Jesus said, we must instead pray for our enemies, 
because the sick man needs the doctor, not the healthy one

9. Therefore, somewhere towards the end of Book 7, Harry meets Snape - a man evil and 
unrepented, and a man Harry has a billion reasons to hate - and, instead of killing him 
straightforward, he forgives him, and thus vanquish him

10. Snape thus a) goes to prison, b) escpaes, c) is killed by someone else, d) kills himself

11. Harry has understood the full power of love, and can now meet LV fearless

Ok, so here it is. What's your opinion?