Deathly Hallows: My Review (SPOILERS!)

[pwrmom2]

No: HPFGUIDX 172558

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma"
> I think DD was a fool, or, maybe he played along to accomplish
> his own manipulations. Snape was good at both Occulemency and
> Legilemens- we must remember that.


Bottom line, whether good or evil the fact is Snape did
everything that DD asked him to do, no matter what his
reasons are. If anything, maybe he was more human than
the other characters.  I don't like Snape, even at the
end, for a lot of the reasons already commented upon,
especially since he let his hatred of James flow into
his teaching.  Call me idealistic, but I'd like to think
a good teacher would try to overcome that, but Snape never
even gave Harry a shot.  Harry may not have shown Snape so
much downright animosity if Snape hadn't treated him like
crap and singled him out from the get go. Granted Snape was
mean to everyone who wasn't Slytherin, but he really went
after Harry from the beginning.   But I digress.  I repeat,
bottom line, Snape did EVERYTHING DD asked him to do.  If
anything, knowing that DD told him that Voldemort needed to
kill Harry, then if Snape was truly on Voldemort's side, he
never would have kept pushing to get Harry there.  Yes, some
of his motivation in the end may have been to try to butter
up V to avoid his imminent death, but if he was truly trying
to help the dark side and prove himself to V he would have
told him DD's theory that if V kills Harry then it would
help the good.  Maybe his motives were mostly just revenge
against V for killing Lily, but who cares?  He still did
everything DD asked him to do.

I choose to let JKR guide my thoughts on this and that Snape
wasn't completely evil.  Just very human with real feelings
as already posted who was in reality risking himself constantly
to do whatever DD asked him to do.

pwrmom2