[HPforGrownups] My current opinion of Snape (Longish) / Re: Clues to Snape's Loyalties

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 170826

Charles Walker Jr <darksworld at yahoo.com> wrote:          --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Lambert <anigrrrl2 at ...>
wrote:

<snip> when Harry and Hermione disagree about something, Hermione is
always right. And Hermione believes Snape is DDM, so I believe she
will be right again.
<snip>

>>>Charles:

I hate to say it, but this statement is wrong on two points. 

First, Hermione is not always right. She was, to quote just one
instance, dead wrong about Draco Malfoy throughout the majority of HBP.
Second, by the end of HBP she does not believe Snape is DDM. Nobody in
the WW except possibly Snape and the portrait of DD would think so at
this point, and I have my doubts about the portrait.

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  ****Katie responds:
  Ok, let me rephrase. Hermione HAS believed Snape to be DDM, until the events on the tower. But I will get back to that in a moment.
  As for her being wrong about Malfoy in HBP, she was. But while she was wrong about Malfoy's actions, she wasn't wrong in assuming that DD knew exactly what was happening. However, as I stated in my previous post, I believe that the departure from the pattern of Harmione being right/Harry being wrong, and Snape being the *good* (if not always nice) guy is a purposeful misdirection by JKR. HBP does not fit the pattern of the previous 5 books - because JKR is deliberately making the reader think that the previous 5 books have been misleading. It's a psuedo-plot twist. 
  As for Hermione now believing that Snape is evil - yes, she does. BUT - I don't believe that the rest of the Order entirely does. I believe that someone else knew about the plan between DD and Snape, and I don't necessarily believe that all the adults are as clueless as Mrs. Weasley or Madame Pomfrey, for example. I'm not sure I buy that none of the adults know Snape's real loyalties - we are seeing this all happen from the POV of teenagers. I think the adults probably know more than they are letting on at this point.
  Of course, this is all opinion, and I could be entirely wrong. I guess we'll just have to wait a few more weeks and see. 
  Katie, Believing Snape is a good guy until JKR proves me wrong. 


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