Did you LIKE Snape?

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 183139

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> We've had a recent thread that mourns the passing of Snape. I 
don't, 
> but that led to this query. In the interest of full disclosure, I 
am 
> a Marauder fan and Sirius Black is my favorite character. So I am 
> naturally biased towards despising one Severus Snape. OK, now on to 
> the show. ;-)
> 
> JKR admitted Snape was "a gift of a character", and I'll second 
that. 
> Whatever your leanings I don't see how you could not be entertained 
> by the enigma that was Snape. JKR made sure we would all want to 
know 
> where exactly Severus stood and why he stood there, as much as we 
> wanted to know what was going to happen to Harry. For some of you, 
> maybe more.


Jack-A-Roe:
I believe that Snape was probably the most interesting character in 
the series. In fact there wouldn't have been a series if not for his 
dubious actions.

But like him, not a chance. He isn't some tragic character that fate 
decided to mess with, that was Harry. 

As a child we see that he is already prejudiced against muggles, but 
not muggle borns. He is not friendly to Petunia at all. We find out 
that he recognized a letter she got from Hogwarts and he read it. 

We see in his dicussions with Lilly that he is hanging around with a 
poor choice in friends. She calls what they did as dark and he 
immediately rationalizes that James, Sirius, etc also play pranks. He 
is intentionally trying to compare apples and oranges.

He is so vindictive that he tries to follow the marauders. Does he 
believe that Dumbledore doesn't know about there being a werewolf in 
school? No, he is simply trying to get them in trouble while making 
himself look good. Unfortunately for him, Sirius sets him up. 
Fortunately for him James rescues him.

We see that he's now become predjudiced against muggle borns even 
calling his friend a mudblood. He doesn't even deny calling others by 
that name nor that he and his friends are junior deatheaters.

He joins the deatheaters and commits murder. It's ok if you kill 
other people as long as they aren't someone you know. It's not until 
Lilly is threatened does start to think this is wrong. He is lucky 
that Dumbledore manipulated him into trying to do good. On his own I 
don't think he would have made it.

People who complain about the marauders picking on him, glance over 
the fact that it was student to student. When Harry comes to school, 
Snape is the biggest bully on the block and he's a teacher. He starts 
in on Harry the first day of class and doesn't let up. Reading the 
paper in class and embarrassing Harry/Hermione is much worse than 
being flipped upside down and having your underwear show.

In the end, Snape is saved from failing his mission because Harry 
decided to check on him. Personally if I was Harry I would have 
kicked him in the balls and spit in his face.

If I was in Potterverse, I wouldn't have liked Snape (even with his 
dry sarcasm) and would have been friends with the marauders.