My current opinion of Snape (Longish) / Re: Clues to Snape's Loyalties

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No: HPFGUIDX 171083

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at ...> wrote:
 
> Yet Hermione does not seem to hate Snape.  She does not precisely 
> take his side, but she is able to step back.  In book 1, she speaks 
> approvingly of Snape's logic, a quality lacking in many wizards.  

Clara adds:

HP and the PS, chapter 16, Through the Trapdoor:
Hermione says:
"This isn´t magic - it´s logic - a puzzle. A lot of the greatest 
wizards haven´t got an ounce of logic, they´d be stuck in here for 
ever."

1. I think that all the way back in Book 1, JKR was pointing out to 
us that Snape, apparently responsible for the potion bottle test, 
might not actually be the Pure-blood Slytherin everyone thought him 
to be. (Did anyone pick up that clue?)

2. Maybe, in a foreshadowing of book 1 to events in the last book, 
Snape will help to defeat Voldemort and co. using logic. (I´m still 
working on how, exactly.)

Clara, who is prepared to lend Snape her copy of Edward De Bono.