The innocence of Snape?

[Alcantur/Rodrigo Rosa]

No: HPFGUIDX 175257

Must of us tend to judge Severus Snape for the facts we DO know about
him, what he did, what he became, how he behaved. Some thinks he is bad
from the very beginning, but we are forgetting something here: the
facts that we DON'T KNOW about him and his childhood.
We don't know the kind of education he was getting at home, the kind of
family where he grew. But we may got at least a clue: Why he has been
named Severus? Is is a name that may show some strictness and a somehow
distant family.
Maybe his muggle parent tended to see his magic ability as a way to get
power or richness, and his wizard parent has some dark tendencies; and
that environment later influentiated his ways and behaviour, as well as
the deeds of the Slytherin house. He might been seen as a tool more
than a child.
But under that there is still a somehow decent guy, brave, loyal and
wise, under the dark shroud he created to protect himself is still a
human been with all the defects and values that are bouded to the
values you got at childhood.
Maybe he is not in the ways we would like, but they are part of the
real Snape we don't see, until the very end of the Harry Potter books.

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