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

[jbenne27 at tampabay.rr.com]

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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. 
 
> <<<<MAJOR SNIPPAGE>>>> 
> ****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. 

jbenne: 
I feel ya'll are missing the point on this.  While depending who does the reading, many things written in the books can be interpreted differently.  That is what makes these books so much fun and hard to figure out.  Back to my point, to know if Snape is good or bad look at JKR herself.  She is DD: she believes in second chances, she sees good in everyone, and she has lead everyone to think of Snape as a bad person.  The work she has put into casting him in a bad light and the path she has lead us down...she wants everyone to think of him as bad.  She has worked hard at this but always leaving a tiny light that he could be good.  Seeing how hard she has worked to paint him as a dark person,  he will turn out to be dark but on the correct side.  He will help Harry in some way but he will never like Harry and will always have a dark personality about him.  But he will support the OOTP in the end.