I was right - Christian Symbols/Off-page Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 174966

Magpie wrote:
> Kind of a me too, but I was somebody who already believed in DDM!
> Snape and I thought the transition was non-existant as well. I'm 
> still scratching my head over why Harry would name his child after 
> Snape. 

Carol responds:
Maybe Harry starts with what he already knows but has never accepted
as "truth."

Snape spied for Dumbledore "at great personal risk" before Godric's
Hollow.

Snape thwarted Quirrell's Halloween attempt to use the troll as a
diversion and questioned him about "where his loyalties lie." He also
saved Harry from Quirrell's curse while Voldemort was in Quirrell's head.

Snape stayed at Hogwarts while Karkaroff fled, stayed away from the
graveyard, helped to thwart Fake!Moody, showed his Dark Mark to Fudge,
and went off to face Voldemort and lie to him after Godric's Hollow.

Snape continued to spy, lie, and risk his life from the end of GoF
till he was killed in the line of duty in DH, passing information to
Harry as his last act, still undetected by the Dark Lord. He risked
his cover by trying to teach Harry Occlumency, saved the kids by
sending the Order to the MoM, agreed to kill Dumbledore at the risk of
his own soul to protect Draco and Harry, continued to work for 
Portrait!Dumbledore after DD's death, sending a fake Sword or
Gryffindor to the Lestrange's vault and a fake one to Harry and
protecting the students with such Slytherin-style measures as decrees
that he knew the DA would violate. He risked discovery, and his life,
saving Lupin from an AK with a Sectumsempra aimed at a DE's hand. And
how about lying to a Dark Lord who can look into your eyes and see
your thoughts? Contrast Gregorovitch as LV invades his mind and
Snape's calm facade as he "hoodwinks" the Dark Lord with his "superb
Occlumency," concealing the key point (polyjuiced Harry's) in chapter
one. And all the time that Harry was at Hogwarts, protecting him
without wanting Harry to find out.

Snape against the Dark Lord, unacknowledged and undetected. Seems
brave to me. "Immensely brave." 

Carol, who sees every reason for Harry to admire the courage of the
man who took such risks behind the scenes and without whose help he
could not have destroyed the locket Horcrux or the soul bit in his scar