Choices/Snape as abuser, SKIP if not interested WAS :Re: CHAPTER

[wildirishrose01us]

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> Potioncat:
> I think one thing JKR did very well was to give a twist to our expectations or to conventions. I had no thought to Snape at all until I found out mid-SS/PS that he "wasn't" the bad guy. Even then as I read along I kept wondering how he couldn't be. At the end of PoA it seemed a happy ending. Sirius was free, Harry had a loving god parent who could look out for him. Only, that's not how it played out. James and Lily were wonderful individuals, people to look up to--only they weren't.


Marianne:
There are people that in public make themselves out to be a kind, caring, wonderful person.  That might be all well and good to outsiders, but in private life that person is a bastard.  They're totally not a bastard, but they certainly don't deserve to be made out to be saints.

Don't flame me. I'm not calling James a bastard. That's pushing the envelope way too far.  But there are some not-so-nice things that the public don't know.  When Harry enters the WW his father was made to be the wonderful, talented wizard until Harry discovers otherwise.  The public didn't know how he'd tormented Snape just because he could.