Snape really was a Good Guy - Canon in the House

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
>
> I just finished reading DH for the third time. On this reread, I
> found a lot more evidence that Snape had really turned around and
> wasn't just Lily's lovesick puppy anymore.

I agree Katie with all your points about Snape. I am just about to
start my third read having gone back to the earlier books after my
second read. I finished HBP this morning.

I found myself in real emotional turmoil in the first week after
reading DH. The main source of which was the low key treatment and
understated end of Snape. I wanted more resolution between him and
Harry but after further thought I cannot see a way that his could have
been accomplished. Harry had no mind for anything but revenge on
Snape and it was probably only a compassionate impulse for another
human being in extremis that took him to Snape's side at his dying
moment. His deepest impulse was 'Lily' at that moment, I think James
would have stood back and coolly watched him die.

Snape made reall moral progress in his life but his tragedy was in
part that this could never be open. He was 'locked' into his cover
story until the mission was accomplished and I am sure he was well
aware that it was likely that he would die before it was.

Poor Severus. (and still so villified by so many)

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