Did you LIKE Snape?

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No: HPFGUIDX 183190

I've been reading this thread since it started, trying to decide if I
was going to put my two Knuts in.

I love Severus Snape.

He was one of the very few grey characters in the books.  Everyone
else was good or evil -- even those that were hidden evil (Wormtail
for example), were evil in the end.  He was a character who was not
easily defined by what everyone immediately saw about him.  He had a
rough childhood and it didn't help that, when he finally got to go to
Hogwarts, that the first people he meets are the soon-to-be Marauders.
 They're compared to the Twins far too often.  The Twins did not, as
far as we could see, torture people just because they existed.  The
Twins were pranksters but they were still good people.  I don't even
particularly hate MMWP, but I just think that they get a pass when
they shouldn't.  They're the HS jocks who beat kids up but the
teachers like them so they get away with it.  Severus had to deal with
those people attacking him all the time -- that would definitely make
me bitter as well.

This isn't as long as I'd like it to be, but it's the prelim of what I
think.  I liked Severus; I would've been friends with Severus.

Oryomai