Did you LIKE Snape?

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183170

zanooda wrote:
<snip post, which I agree with>
> 
> zanooda, who believes that Snape never overcame his grudge
completely, but tried to save Lupin anyway ...

Carol responds:
Snape *did* save Lupin, if only for the ten months or so that they
both had left to live. His curse may have missed the DE's hand
(luckily for Snape) and hit poor George's ear by mistake, but it kept
the DE from completing his Avada Kedavra (or from aiming it properly).
Whatever the case, Lupin lived because of Snape's action and would
have died without it, which counts as saving Lupin's life. My own view
is that the DE heard the first syllable or two of Snape's Sectumsempra
curse and swerved out of the way to avoid being hit by it
"accidentally." By the time he regained his bearings and could cast
another curse, Lupin and George had probably passed through the
protective barrier and disappeared.

In any case, Snape risked exposure of his true loyalties, which would
have meant his own death, to save his old enemy, Lupin (who,
unfortunately, never got a chance to learn what really happened and
thought the worst of Snape)--all, as you said, against DD's orders.

Carol, hoping that Harry told George the real story and still
wondering whether Snape could have healed George's ear as he healed
Draco's wounds from the same spell given the chance