Did you LIKE Snape?

[a_svirn]

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> Betsy Hp:
> Just when I thought I was out, you pull me back in. :D  It's a good 
> question with a complicated answer, for me.  Pre-DH, the answer was 
> easy: I quite liked Snape.  Like, a lot.  And yeah, I'd have 
totally 
> been friends with him, from childhood onward.  Sure there would 
have 
> been times that I'd cry, "Oh, Severus, you *didn't*!" and other 
times 
> we'd get into massive philosophical battles (OMG, fun!!).  But I 
saw 
> him as a solid, intelligent, principled guy with a delicious wit 
and 
> a healthy sense of irony.  Totally BFF material. ;) 
> 
> Post-DH?  Yeah... no, we wouldn't have been friends.  I think I'd 
> have *tried* to be his friend, but his continuing sense of 
> worthlessness, his bizarre fixation on those who those who thought 
so 
> little of him (Lily and then Dumbledore), would have turned me 
off.  

a_svirn:
I don't think there is any real contrast between the pre and post DH 
Snapes. The thing is, before DH we simply didn't know what it was 
that had been driving him. He was a classic riddle-wrapped-in-a-
mystery-inside-an-enigma case. I can see how one can be attracted to 
a mysterious stranger, but it is next to impossible to be friends 
with one.  

> > >>Magpie:
> > <snip>
> > But unfortunately he has to compete with the guy I thought he 
was   
> > for the first six books and he can't.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Exactly.  The Snape I knew, pre-DH, would have looked at the DH-
Snape 
> with shuddering horror.  

a_svirn:
How can you tell?