What about Minerva? And Snape as a big softie?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Aida Costa" <aida_costa at ...> wrote:
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> As for Snape's love for Lily seeming creepy and obsessive - I think
> she wrote him as being wracked with guilt for getting her killed.  How
> could that ever leave anyone's mind??  

I dunno.  If Snape WASN'T obsessed with Lily, he never even would've
joined the Order.  He would've kept on being evil.  I know we're
supposed to see redemption in Snape... but he's still just a bitter
little man who was only saved from complete evil by becoming obsessed
with one good person.  Does Harry's son really deserve his name just
because Snape turned out only to be a big obsessive jerk, but not evil?

And I don't think he was even that useful at the end.  It was nice to
get some exposition and backstory, but... i dunno. I thought he was
placed to do something useful, not just place info on to harry at the
right time.

And Minerva didn't get much time, but I enjoyed the time she did have
in this book.  She ends the series one of my favorite characters.  I
wouldn't've minded seeing her shove it to Umbridge somehow.  Not
nearly enough sticking it to Umbridge in my opinion.