[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Rage at Being Called Coward : No, just a coward

[mary neumann]

No: HPFGUIDX 171946

Vivamus wrote:
He fully expects to die doing what he believes is right, damned forever with no redemption by everyone on both sides, including Harry. It is probably the bravest act by any character in the entire series, for he cannot even take comfort in being called a hero when he dies. He is doing these things FOR Harry, and yet Harry himself calls him a coward. No wonder he is enraged.

JKR said a long time ago that SS was a "deeply horrible" person, or
something like that. This fits it, and finally exposes a full set of
motivations for him, that fit everything we've seen him do so far.

So, what do you all think of "Brave Snape" as a theory?

vmonte:
How does being deeply horrible equate to being brave? I think Snape is a coward. Some people don't like being told the truth. Especially when it's something negative.

Sherry now:
I can never accept murder being considered an act of bravery. I think Snape reacted with such rage because he knew he acted out of cowardice. He saved his own neck and murdered an old man, the one person who had stood by him for years. not very brave in my opinion. 

Mary:
I think that all along DD knew that he would have to die and it was his plan for SS to kill him.

I think that when Hargrid overheard them arguing that DD was telling SS that he would have to kill him (because of the unbreakable vow that he did w/ Malfoy's mom*) and that Snape was arguing because he didn't want to do it.

Then, at the end of HBP, right before SS killed DD, DD said something along the lines of "Severus please" and I think he was pleading for SS to hurry up and put him out of his misery.

Just my opinion.
   
Mary Rayner