That lovely moment after Harry snooped in Snape's pensieve.

I can just picture Harry sitting little Al down and telling him of the great times he had with Snape.

"And there was this one time that Snape shook me violently then threw things at my face and screamed- I had just seen one of the most shattering moments of my life, seeing my parents in a horrible way. Snape was really sympathetic and acted like a real adult about it."

Snape is such a lovely person- I don't know why Lily went for James when there was Snape around. Sure, he was a <s>racist</s> bloor-purist Deatheater jerkface who was ugly, but James picked on Snape, so that makes Snape super great, and James super evil for being cocky at the age of 15.





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lol! Since lot's of people have something to say when their Snape gets negative attention, here is my answer to you.

He's not a nice man.

He just isn't.

He did some brave things- but I will never think of him as a 'nice' person. He made his choices, and his choices were to be incredibly cruel to CHILDREN (like Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville.)

I admire what all he did in the series, of course, because they were wild feats of bravery, and I just LOVED that whole 'look at me' thing. It was so sad and iconic!

Seeing his love for Lily was very moving.

HE'S STILL A JERK, though. He called Lily the Wizarding Equivalent of the n-word in front of everyone. He was too weak to reject the Deatheaters when he was younger- and that's when he had his chance with Lily. He squandered it until it was too late.
Why WOULD Lily choose him at the time? I certainly wouldn't.

James, for all his faults, grew OUT of his cruelty according to everyone. Yeah, he and Snape still occasionally did things to eachother, but to me there's a distinction in that James was a cocky teenage boy when he did his cruel things and obviously changed or Lily would not have been involved with him.

Snape, upon growing up, continued to be a cruel immature person (in fact he looks like he got worse)- and yet people look over that and jut think of him as a hero. Heroes can be jerks, guys.

Snape is no saint. He is an interesting hero BECAUSE he's not a nice person.

Some people will say: 'but-but Snape was awesome! How could you say such ironic things about him?!?!?!?!?!'

Lol. Get out the books and read some Snape scenes in book 1- remember how cruel he was to Harry (an 11 yr old orphan). Remember how cruel he was to Neville (and he KNEW what sort of life Nev was leading.) Remember how he mocked Hermione's appearance in book 4? ('I see no difference.' and remember how he was always making Ron do things for that brat Malfoy in book 3?

He is a petty man, who I don't think was ever mature enough or nice enough for Lily to want to have a relationship with.

Snape was a Hero. Snape was a total jerk. TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN.