I was wrong (contains spoilers, lots and lots of them)

[Alice Franceschini]

No: HPFGUIDX 172701

> Eggplant wrote:
> But in my own defense let me ask even the most loyal members of the > I love Snape club something, wasn't there a time when reading the
> book you thought I must be wrong, Snape really is evil?



Just wanted to add my 2 cents on Snape.

>From book one - I never thought Snape was really on the side of evil.
I always thought he was the perfect mole or spy for Dumbledore.

Snape did handle Harry badly but not evil-ly - like Umbridge was
doing - and Snape had so many advantages to do evil to Harry but he
never did.  I think Snape seeing Lily in Harry's eyes prevented Snape
from truly hurting Harry.  Someone who can feel love can not be
truly evil - which is what killed Pettigrew - he felt compassion and
the silver hand strangled him.

Now with all that has been revealed in the last book -
I think Harry - a blend of looking like James, the man who stole Lily
from Snape and Harry having his mother's eyes was maddening to Snape
when he first looked at Harry.  Remember that stare Snape gave Harry
in the first book.  We all thought it was because he was "thee" famous
Harry Potter but I now think Snape was seeing Lily, the woman he
loved, in her son's eyes but the rest of Harry looked like James, who
emotionally for Snape, James was still standing between him and Lily.
He also had to think he could have been the father to Harry had things
worked out in his favor.
I think it was this frustration that Snape had is why he was rough
with Harry and Harry's eyes, like his mother's, save him from Snape.

Plus Dumbledore kept saying, I trust Snape with my life and coming
from Dumbledore that was saying a lot.  Plus Rowling writes with an
understanding of myths and legends and real witch knowledge.
I am not saying she is a witch only that she knows a lot of real
knowledge so she has done her research.  This is why I never thought
Snape was really evil because he couldn't be because myths don't do
that.  Snape was the perfect balanced blend of evil and good - a
bridge to either side and once Snape was dead, that bridge was gone
and so the head of evil and the head of good would then annihilate
each other, which is what happened - again myth format.  The world
was again in balance.

I was disappointed not finding out what Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione,
Draco and the rest got as jobs.  But the epilouge was necessary to
return the world back to a balanced order, again myth format.
I wanted to know how George was doing the joke shop without Fred.

But all in all, in my humble opinion, the seventh book was written so
well even though it never answered all of our remaining questions.


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