I cannot bring myself to like Snape. I don't hate him, exactly, but I personally find nothing redeeming about him. I know that so many people have woobiefied him and expect everyone to go all squishy because he loved Lily, but no. I can't. I can have some respect for what he did, but I don't believe that he chose the path he took because it was the Right Thing. When it comes to Snape, I can't let go of the fact that no student should be asked the question "what do you fear most?" and respond with the name of one of their teachers. No student should fear a teacher that much, and the way Snape treated Neville was reprehensible. He was a bastard to many students where there's no convenient "oh, but he's the son of the woman that he loves from another man so it's okay, he's just expressing his inner ~*~pain~*~" excuse, and I find that disgusting.
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Date: 2009-03-24 04:27 am (UTC)I cannot bring myself to like Snape. I don't hate him, exactly, but I personally find nothing redeeming about him. I know that so many people have woobiefied him and expect everyone to go all squishy because he loved Lily, but no. I can't. I can have some respect for what he did, but I don't believe that he chose the path he took because it was the Right Thing. When it comes to Snape, I can't let go of the fact that no student should be asked the question "what do you fear most?" and respond with the name of one of their teachers. No student should fear a teacher that much, and the way Snape treated Neville was reprehensible. He was a bastard to many students where there's no convenient "oh, but he's the son of the woman that he loves from another man so it's okay, he's just expressing his inner ~*~pain~*~" excuse, and I find that disgusting.