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[marshallsundeen]

No: HPFGUIDX 173043

colebiancardi:
> yep, I saw that interview and thought, wow oh wow. So, what is the
> definition of a hero, I wonder? I was expecting, at the very least,
> that Snape is an Anti-Hero, which plays off well with Harry's Hero.
> And basically, is JKR stating that placing Snape in Slytherin doomed
> and sealed his fate as a bad person with no redeeming qualities
> whatsoever, if he didn't *love* Lily? So, the House System, which is
> still in play 19 years later, helped formed and cement any biases and
> *badness* that those unfortunate enough to get placed in Slytherin.
> No redemption. You cannot atone.

marshallsundeen writes:

As JKR has made clear in the book, your choices are what matter.
Snape chose to be a death eater.  He chose to despise Sirius and
James. He chose to despise Harry.  He also chose to protect Harry and
work for Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.  I think the many
that loved Snape as a character loved the complexity.  As we find out
about Dumbledore in Deathly Hallows, people are not all good or all
bad.  Snape could have made different choices in his life and may have
had a very different life.  JKR did not doom Snape, he doomed himself.