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Originally Posted by teddylupin 
Harry says something along the lines of how he, Snape, and Voldemort were the lost boys who found their home at Hogwarts. In my mind, Voldemort was the horror, Harry was the happiness and Severus, between these two in time and in personality, was the tragedy, which just adds to his heartbreak, having struggled past the evil and yet not reached the peace. |
Yes, I think this is an important point.
I think Voldemort, Snape and Harry also show three ways how it can goes.
OK, I have to excuse me now for my bad english, I try to explain what I mean, I hope you can understand it.
I think there are a lot of similar situations the three where in, but they made different decisions.
It is not life, or anything else that forced Voldemort to be evil, or Snape to become a death-eater. It was theire decision.
And in many situations, Harry could have made an other decision, but he did not. He decided not to kill the death eater who attacked him on the motorcycle on the way to the burrows, but he did not. Remember it was "Expelliarmus".
And so did Snape, very late, but he made the decision to go to Dumbledore to warn him.