Evil Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154273

Carol earlier:
> > She's already surprised some of us by having Snape make the
Unbreakable Vow and kill Dumbledore. (Alla may not consider that a
surprise, but it nearly killed me. I was in mourning for days for
*Snape* until I realized that he could still be DDM.) All (well, 
most) of us are on tenterhooks to discover his true loyalties and
whether we've interpreted the evidence correctly. 
> <HUGE SNIP>
> 
Alla responded:
> 
> But I WAS surprised, hugely surprised in fact (that is considering 
the fact that I did read those spoilers few days in advance) and did 
not even give them second thought.
> 
> I always considered Snape to be abusive bastard (IMO of course), but 
> I was shocked that he turned out to be the killer of Dumbledore.
> 
> My first shock was a "tale of deepest remorse" of course, but even
then I kept saying to myself. No, that cannot be, he is a spy, he just
plays a game. Ooops. No games - here comes Snape, Dumbledore is dead.
> 
> That is why I think that it is quite possible that no more huge
reversals are forthcoming and the book 7 will be dealing with
aftermath of what happened.
> 
> Alla, who DID cry after the Tower, but for Dumbledore's death and
for Harry's pain and not for the man who killed Dumbledore.
>
Carol again:

Just to clarify, so that no one will think I'm in mourning for an evil
character, I knew that Dumbledore was going to die, but I wasn't
prepared for the manner of his death. Of course, I mourned Dumbledore,
but I was also mourning DDM!Snape, who had been so real to me and for
the moment seemed to me to have been cruelly snatched away by JKR. I
felt betrayed and cheated. How could she create this fascinating,
conflicted character and then replace him with a cardboard villain, a
mere plot device whose sole purpose was to dispose of Dumbledore so
that Harry could carry on alone? Had I been deluded to believe in him
all this time? Or was I right that Snape was loyal to Dumbledore, but
he had now been forced by an unbearable fate to kill his beloved
mentor? Either way, it was, and is, very hard to accept.

After coming back to the list, reading other people's posts, and
giving the matter a lot more thought than a person with other
responsibilities ought to do, I'm convinced that Snape is indeed DDM.
The problem is how he can prove that to Harry and (for me) how he can
possibly survive Book 7. 

But there's always a reversal. The plot structure requires it. And it
has to happen in the second half of Book 6-7, not the first. Rest
assured that she does have surprises in store for us and for Harry,
and at least some of them, almost certainly, relate to Snape.

Carol, who sees Snape as a deeply flawed, deeply tragic character who
will almost certainly be redeemed whether he survives into the
Epilogue or not