Victory for TEWWW EWWW?? Snape the hero

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 174324

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Grant" <trog@> wrote:
> > 
> > > And the whole time, the ungrateful little rule-braking, glory-
> hound
> > > brat not only wouldn't show him any simple respect, but actually 
> kept
> > > calling him out as one of the bad guys!
> > > 
> > > Certainly reason to be a little snippy....
> > > 
> > > DG
> > >
> > 
> > Prep0strus:
> > 
> > But not to Neville. Or Hermione.  Or any of the other students he
> > treated cruelly because he was that - a cruel person.  And he used 
> to
> > BE one of the bad guys.  You can't get too mad when people make
> > assumptions about you that were once true.  You kind of have to
> > realize that it's part of your penance for being evil that you're 
> not
> > gonna be Mr. Trusted in the future.
> <  BIG SNIP>
> 
> 
> Alla:
> I cannot imagine somebody truly loving a woman, hating her child 
> that much.
> 

Valky now:
Exactly Alla, Snape earned his peace with his soul for his crimes
because he did brave things for the good cause, but he hated Harry for
a long time and while he harboured all his cruel intent toward the boy
his love for Lily was barely more than self interest. It wasn't until
the last that he finally put those feelings aside and by then Harry
was coming of age, his duty to protect Lily's child was at an end. 

Snape chose to stay at the head of the battle after he had made peace
with his demons, Dumbledore knew he would and acted presumptively
about it, but it was definitely Snapes choice by this time. He had
even stopped hating Harry some, though he struggled to conceal it, but
there's no excusing him for the years before, it was never Harry's
fault or responsibility in any way. Harry was the one orphaned by
Lily's death, not Snape, this is what Snape never really understood
and shame on him for that, his behaviour was just plain reprehensible.
He acted out his childish impulses and treated kids with outrageous
cruelty, he became what he was so sure he hated about Harry. It was
his own foolish mistake but the redeeming thing is that he at last
rectified it, he risked and lost all he had left to finally make that
right too. It took Snape all the seven years he knew Harry to wake up
to himself, we can't pretend he was something that he wasn't, he *was*
a bully and a horrible man who chose to do the right thing at great
risk to himself.

Valky