Harry Potter #7

Well, Keryn and I were talking today and I promised that I would record my thoughts about Snape here. So here goes. I think that Snape will turn out to be a good guy in the end. I spent the last weekend rereading the series in preperation for the movie on Wednesday and the book in 12 days. I think that Snape doesn't LIKE Harry much and has transfered alot of his resentment toward James onto Harry. Snape would probably like to see Harry mess up for many reasons, but I think that the main one is that above all else, Snape is a teacher and he thinks that Harry is not living up to his potential. Of course, he is not going to help Harry AT ALL! But he would like to see Harry get as good as he can. I think that Snape knows that Harry is the only way any of them will ever get out from under Vodermort and so he doesn't want to see any harm come to him, because he really does want Harry to win. I felt alot of sympathy for Snape in rereading book 6. He was really stuck in a difficult spot because of the unbreakable vow that Malfoy's mother made him swear and his oaths to the Order of the Phoenix. In the end, when Harry and Dumbledore on the tower with Malfoy, Malfoy has started to lower his wand and change sides so that Dumbledore can protect him and his family. Really, Vodermort had a very powerful hold on Malfoy, he knew that Vodermort would kill him and his entier family if he even refused the mission assigned to him and, being a moderatly horrible person, couldn't figure a way out of it! Before Malfoy could change sides, however, the other Death Eaters broke through and were there, egging him on to kill Dumbledore, something he really didn't want to do. Snape burst into a rather delicate situation. I think that he could tell, just by looking at Dumbledore, that he had just injested a large amount of poisen and knew that he would never be able to get any antidote for him in time for it to do any good. Dumbledore was, in essance, doomed to a painful and horrible death, no matter what anyone did. Dumbledore was pleading with Snape, and I think he was pleading for a quick, painless death. Remember, when Harry and Dumbledore were coming back from finding the (fake) Horcrux, Dumbledore kept insisting that Snape was the only one who could help. And that was before they knew the Death Eaters were in Hogworts. Snape essentially looked and Dumbledore and knew that the only thing he could do, to save Malfoy, himself, and the Order's purpose, was to kill Dumbledore. I really think that in the end, he and Harry will come to an understanding, for Lily's sake. I belive that Snape really was very sorry for Lily's death. Not James' exactly, but Lily's. I don't know of course, but these are my predictions on Snape and Book 7.