[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Malfoy (Narcissa)/Why we'll get no further revelelations that Snap

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 169797

Jen:
Just to be clear, I'm not one proposing that Snape wanted to 
kill Lupin or anything I would put in the category of Evil!Snape. 
That's not how I read Snape's motivation or personality thus far even 
without much to go on. In many ways he comes across as being like 
Harry as a boy, too curious for his own good, and the person you 
describe above - frustrated, harassed, rejected. I just take that in 
a different direction as far as what Harry will learn from adult 
Snape. The problem now for Harry as I see it is he gives Snape more 
power than Snape actually has and doesn't recognize the reality of 
the events he's blaming Snape for, a very similar situation to what 
possibly transpired for Snape with the Marauders and continues into 
present day. 

Magpie;
Ah! I see. My post was pretty much all based on this specific idea, that we
would learn that during the Prank Snape really knew Lupin was a werewolf
and was trying to kill him etc.

In terms of Snape just being revealed to be ESE, there I totally agree with
what that would presumably be showing Harry. And that whatever we learn
about Snape's loyalties now, I think we will learn what led to his joining
the DEs. Even if he's DDM I think that's important, because even if he is
really DDM, he was a real DE before that. That was a choice that probably
defined the rest of his life. (Not the last defining choice, but a defining
choice, surely.)

-m