Greatest creation

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 173068

Julie wrote:
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> Snape is no hero, maybe he's an antihero at best. He's damaged 
goods, stuck
> in the past and unable to move beyond it, but he?is a?different 
person, if not
> a "good" person, still clearly more principled than he was when he 
first came 
> to Dumbledore. 
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> Julie 
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Intrigued as I was by Snape, I have to admit I was mightily let down 
that he and Harry had no face-to-face. Deep inside me, I wanted his 
sacrifices to be acknowledged but then reality came into play and I 
had to realize that indeed, he gave the Dark Lord the prophecy. He 
was damaged goods, as you so aptly put it before and after, almost 
beyond redemption. That JKR made it possible for him to serve so 
noble a role, even if it didn't include my desire to see him redeemed 
in Harry's eyes (whilst alive, I had hoped) is a testament, must be 
so, to her belief that some level of redemption is possible for 
almost everyone. The dark lord was given a final opportunity to find 
a speck of humanity in himself (Harry entreated him to try to feel 
some remorse) and it wasn't possible for him. He indeed, had no 
humanity left. I was left wishing for more for poor, tortured Snape 
but I am thinking what he got was realistic, a grown-up ending.
Jen D. (still in shock from having read the last words of the last 
words of any Harry Potter story...) 
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