Snape V. Marauders

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No: HPFGUIDX 173338

> But he was still a mean little man.
>
> ~Adam (Prep0strus), who apologizes for the unexpected length of
this post.
>

But a mean little man who spent year of his life going into danger
with little thought for his own safety. I have no doubt he was a
deeply damaged individual but dismissing him as a 'mean little man'
is hurtful to those of us who perhaps identify with him in some
aspects of our personalities. Have you never been mean and petty or
behaved like a child when you should have been an adult. All of us
are damaged goods in some ways unless you had a charmed childhood
with perfect parents and went to an exceptional school.

James and Sirius were themselves unlovely adolescents but were
unlovely in ways that fellow students overlooked. Sirius dismissed
Harry's concerns about his fathers treatment of Snape and considered
house elves unworthy of any consideration. Sanpe was a social outcast
who took the friends he could get who unfortunately were all on the
way to be death eaters. Dumbledore himelf conceded that Snape sorted
into another house might have been a different person.

Snape was an exceptional potion maker and a skilled occlumens and
Harry accorded him the title 'the bravest man I ever knew'.
Dumbledore said he was lucky to have him and mourned him with his
aside of 'poor Severus'.

So I think your final epithet for him is unkind and uncharitable more
in kin with Voldemort's casual killing of a man he thought to be a
loyal servant. Contrast it with Dumbledore's compassionate acceptance
of a flawed man who was nevertheless acting for the good.

I'm sorry if this seems to have become a little personal, it was not
meant as a personal attack merely a deeply felt disagreement with
your expressed view of what I admit is my favourite character.

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