I have even less respect for Snape now

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 172485

I'll post my review of the whole book tomorrow but I had to put this 
up now while it is still fresh in my mind. I've been on a road trip to 
comic-con so I just now finished the book--I didn't like it BTW.

Snape strikes me as a petty, pathetic, short-sited man whose life of 
misery and pain is completely deserved.   Snape's love isn't pure, 
isn't good, no matter how fuzzy his patronus is.  It is selfish and 
possessive.  If he really loved Lily, he would have done so much more 
for Harry than what he did over the past seven years.  I know that if 
the woman I love died, I would do everything for that kid--especially 
if he was a student of mine. I would have trained him, and cared for 
him and made him want to be around me because every second he stared 
at me with those green eyes I would have been Happy. I would have been 
reminded of the person I love and I would take solace in knowing that 
they were smiling down on me with gladness.  Instead he treats Harry 
like crap and in his final moments demands to see Lily's green eyes 
one more time.  Why didn't he want to do that for the past six years?  
why wouldn't he want to see Harry grow up into the kind of boy Lily 
would have been proud of.  That would have been a worthy testament to 
her.   

If it was the James factor, well that still doesn't make a whole lotta 
sense for a smart slytherin with a well developed sense of revenge.  
what would be better than taking the son of a man you hated with the 
woman you loved and becoming a father figure to that boy?  Harry was 
so starved for a genuine father figure, Snape would have had the boy 
worshiping him as much as he did Dumbledore.  Snape could have done 
some good and gotten his revenge over James as well by actually being 
there for Lily's child.

This is stream of conciousness and scattered. its my first chance at a 
computer on my trip since I have finished the book so it's all just 
rushing out.  But the bottom line is, is that if Snape really loved 
Lily, he would have treated her son with actual diginity and respect 
and taken Harry under his wing.  The fact that he didn't shows just 
how selfish his love really was.

phoenixgod2000, who thinks the epilogue is a travesty and hasn't been 
this disappointed in a book in a long time.