Thoughts on Snape from a non Snape Fan (uh-oh)

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 175974

> Montavilla47:

> But mostly, it's that line, "Sometimes I think we sort
> too early..."  Which says to me that Dumbledore
> valued Snape to the extent that Snape emulated the
> qualities of Gryffindor, rather than for his value as
> a Slytherin.

  Rowena:

  I've been thinking about that line and I wonder - was it only Snape
he was talking about?

  Here is Snape the Slytherin showing Gryffindor's signature virtue of
courage to a degree unmatched by most if not all Gryffindors, yes. But
here also is Dumbledore the Gryffindor painfully conscious of his own
failings of ambition and lust for power that are usually assigned to
Slytherin. I wonder...did DD think maybe they'd *BOTH* been misassigned?

  Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch