Snape still gives off that stalker vibe to me

[Ada]

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<bookworm857158367 at ...> wrote:
>
> I'm glad Snape turns out to be (sort of) good, but he still comes
> across as mighty creepy in the end. He was willing to sacrifice Harry
> and James so Lily could live (and presumably come back to him.) He
> saved Harry for Lily's sake, but didn't love her enough to actually
be
> KIND to her son. And why, for heaven's sake, couldn't he take a bath
> and wash his hair? He's not the bravest man Harry has ever known, not
> by a long shot. He's an obsessive stalker who never moved past his
> teenage crush and has spent twenty years doing good behind the scenes
> while torturing students and being incredibly unpleasant.
>


Ok, I'm sorry but I need to TOTALLY disagree with you here! Chapter 33
was my favorite in the whole book, and the end when Harry was talking
to his son Albus, and he says "Albus Severus you were named for two
headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was
probably the bravest man I ever knew."-- had me in tears! I think you
must have missed in chapter 33 where Snape always saw James in
Harry.... and do we not remember from The Order of the Phoenix that
James wasn't the nicest person to Severus. Snape not being perfect
doesn't mean that he wasn't brave. He spared Draco from destroying
himself by killing Dumbledore himself, he went back to Voldemort
countless times at his own risk. So he didn't like Harry.... he was
still risking his life for YEARS to save him, and to defeat the being
that killed the love of his life. He loved Lily so much, maybe
selfishly at times, but that love never died, he never moved on.

And what about his Patronus being the same as hers? What about him
leading Harry to Gryffindors sword?? It was amazingly brave! Who cares
that he always saw james in Harry and treated him accordingly, he
honored a love to a woman that never loved him back, and whom had never
asked anything of him. He did with honor until he himself died.

Ada