DH rambles and crows eating _ LOVEd this book

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Leslie41:

> No, he doesn't give a damn about Harry as a person.  Still, he 
does the 
> right thing.  That's Snape all over.  And he doesn't just do it 
for 
> Lily's sake.  Because Snape has changed.  Fred loses an ear 
because 
> Snape saves Lupin, for example, whom he cares less for than 
Harry.  
> Snape regrets having to witness the deaths of people (such as 
Charity) 
> that he, because of his circumstances as a double agent) cannot 
save.
> 
> Can you give him credit for something, just one thing, without 
tearing 
> him down and impugning his reasons for doing it?  
> 
> The man did help to save the world, after all.
>


Alla:



I give him a credit for doing a right thing for the sake of Lily, 
NOT for the sake of saving the world, but that is surely more than I 
wanted to give him credit for, Anything else? 

I am also forced to credit him for some change over the 
years, I guess, but I have  lot of doubt that he would ever come to 
the right side if Voldemort would have agreed to spare Lily.



He bargained with Voldemort first. The words "you disgust me" summed 
it up for me quite well.

He could care less if husband and baby of the woman he gave to 
Voldemort will survive. Credit for that? Harry is a noble and 
forgiving soul indeed.

But as I said, him saving Lupin and telling Phinneas not to call 
Hermione mudblood  ( thanks Zara for that page by the way) do point 
to me that Snape changed **over the 
years**. It is surely a progress from calling every person of Lily's 
birth mudblood if you ask me.



Alla.