not giving Snape credit?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 169200

Leslie41:

Well, it doesn't surprise me that you don't want to give Snape credit
for his actions. It doesn't surprise me at all. It's one of the
hallmarks of those that hate Snape that they cannot give him credit
for anything.



Sherry:
I am an extreme Snape critic, and I admit it freely.  However, though I
detested him and thought him sadistic in his treatment of his students,
particularly Harry and Neville, and I believed that a man who can hate a
child on sight from the mere fact of that child's father's identity, was the
most immature person and questioned why such a person should be a teacher, I
still believed, until HBP, that Snape was on Dumbledore's side, a good moral
lesson that someone doesn't have to be nice to still fight for the right.
However, I'm sorry, murdering Dumbledore changed all that for me.  I'm one
who cannot accept any spin on that event.  I don't believe in murdering your
general, leader and mentor, the only one who wholeheartedly believed in and
supported you.  I've not yet heard *any* explanation for it that makes it
work for me.  I don't believe in murder for the so-called greater good.
Once JKR said DD is definitely dead, she took away any lingering doubt for
me.

Anyway, I don't believe that *all* Snape critics *never* give or at least
gave him any credit.  But the events of HBP shed a different light on all
his previous actions.  I cannot separate them.  I don't know if Snape is
pure evil, if he just chose the coward's way on the tower and will regret it
in DH or whatever.  But now, no, I can't credit him with any positive
actions for anything in the past, because I don't know what his motives
were, or even what the thinking behind anything of his was.


Sherry