[CallMeIshmael]

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yeah, I was leaning toward Snape being somewhere in the middle.

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Yeah, I remember you saying that. Whether or not Snape was "good" or "in the middle" is probably debatable. Basically, I thought it was clear that Snape didnt 'kill' dumbledore, and that "Severus, please" meant he was asking him to kill him.


fwiw, off the top of my head, there were several things that snape did that really, to me, shed light on his character being "good":

- DD never tells us why he trusts snape; the fact this was saved for a reveal in book 7, to me, meant it was going to be important, and I feel that is more likely to happen if that reason turns out to be correct

- the conversation between snape and DD that Hagrid overhears (whenever Hagrid says "i shouldnt have told you that" it turned out to be important before that) where snape didnt want to do something

- the twich during the unbreakable vow - thoughout the series, twitching/stuff just like this was used less as a red herring than for plot important nervousness or tells

- In OotP, Snape saves Harry by sending the order to the ministry...Snape had to put several clues together to warn the order; if he fails to warn the order, Harry goes to Voldy, and the order wouldnt think twice about it, since Snape has to put together a cryptic one liner harry says in front of umbridge that could easily be seen as unintelligible

- Snape has several chances to kill Harry in HBP, but doesnt; yes, Voldy wants to do it himself, but I dont think he would mind if he stuns Harry, and brings him to him. Beyond that Snape saves harry from death eaters (im honestly suprised voldy didnt know snape wasnt on his side)

- Snape doesnt kill anyone during the death eater raid; he stuns teachers. Just doesnt feel like a death eater.



If what Dynasty says is correct, and the fan base was split evenly on the snape is good thing, Im surprised. I thought that a close read, especially if you read them more than once, gave a LOT of clues to snape being good.