Snape's patronus

Only if 1) Harry was mentally prepared and was going to take Voldemort down with him. 2) Severus deemed it strategically advantageous to the situation, either for Harry or the side of Light in general.

Basically, yes if they planned it that way.

i dont understand this part of the series because i thought everyones was different? wasnt lilly's also a doe??

*Sighs*
(How in the bloody world can people be teachers? Seriously. I'm ready to AK something.)

Patronuses usually are specific to a person. Severus Snape's patronus was a doe because he loved Lily, so his projection of positive feeling was a representation of her.

No, Severus Snape is far from being a perfect person. He had many flaws, had many shortcomings. He was still a Slytherin, and he would never be the things Gryffindors held dear. But he worked his whole life for some kind of redemption, died for some kind of redemption. And love. I think for someone who grew up with so much hate in his life, to be able to love someone so strongly, for an entire lifetime,- that deserves respect. If you can't repsect him for holding a position that many, many others would have crumpled in, or for his expertise in Potions, or for his loyalty to Dumbledore, than, at least, repsect him for that.[/quote]


i agree with Lupin, if you think about it, was Dumbledore much better, or much different from Severus. He too lied to Harry, he even shunned Harry at times, and it was enough to, IMHO, make Harry doubt his relationship with Dumbledore and doubt his intentions.

It took me a couple of seconds to realize that JT was referring to me. Somehow Lupin always mean Remus- or maybe I'm just used to Teddy by now. Roflmao either way.

JKR took the trouble of writing Manipulative!Dumbledore, and not even mildly manipulative, but straight down chessmaster-playing-with-his-pawns-in-war-and-are-you-sure-this-guy-isn't-a-bloody-Slytherin manipulative. Then she just glossed over that entire aspect that was a semi-major subplot, and wrote Dumbledore as the mentor/grandfatherly figure in the last chapters.
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i agree with everyone who says snape was a gray i think he was not evil but curious about what power he could attain and that i read earliar in the thread about whose to judge good and evil its all perspective its which sideyou are on but i dont feel snape is redeemed for what he did i think he is just even more seklfish than he was before for holding his grudge this long but i am glad snape was the way he was because it changes the series