Victory for TEWWW EWWW

[lazuli_tps]

No: HPFGUIDX 172999



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> Nora, quoting from The Today Show today:
>
> > "Was Snape always intended to be a hero?" "Is he a hero? I don't see
> > Snape as a hero... he's very brave, but..." "Would he have protected
> > Harry if he hadn't loved Lily?" "No, not at all."
> >


   Hi all. Though as of yet I have no idea what TEW etc and LOLLI etc is
all about (being exceptionally late to this board) I sort of agree with
the previous poster, and JKR. However I do see him as a hero.

I have always loved Snape, and the books are (were?) as much about
Snape's past as they are about Harry's future, but to call Snape a hero
without clarification is... problematic. Yeah he was a hero in that,
despite the risks and his fear, he constantly put himself in danger for
'The Greater Good'; but whose good? The world, or his own personal
revenge? His changing sides and spying was not altruistic at the start.
But over time..?

It's not clear how much he had come to see that his work was for
everyone by the end. Even after everything he had been through, if Harry
didn't have Lily's eyes to constantly remind him of both his love and
guilt, who's to say he would have had the strength to carry out the
plans? We'll never know, because carry on he did.

And this is why he is a hero of sorts: a flawed, bitter, complicated
hero. And story wise that's the best sort there is.

Lazuli ^_^





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