Thanks! But I think I need to clarify something: You say: You mention, though, that Snape has never so much as used racial epithets, but he does, at least once... in Snape's Worst Memory
But what I actually said was that we never hear Snape say anything negative about Muggles or Muggleborns *as an adult*. What he did as a very distressed adolescent, *before* joining the Death Eaters and becoming disenchanted with them, is something else again.
BTW, although I originally thought, as you do, that Snape would die to save Harry and thereby expiate his sins, I am no longer so sure of this - for several reasons, too long to go into here. I will say I am no longer as sure as I once was that he did kill Dumbledore, though Dumbledore is definitely dead. And I am convinced that, at this point in the story (the end of HBP), Severus is more truly Dumbledore's man than Harry is. Of course, that's just the way I see it, but I do have my reasons.
Thanks again for your comment; glad you enjoyed it.
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You mention, though, that Snape has never so much as used racial epithets, but he does, at least once... in Snape's Worst Memory
But what I actually said was that we never hear Snape say anything negative about Muggles or Muggleborns *as an adult*. What he did as a very distressed adolescent, *before* joining the Death Eaters and becoming disenchanted with them, is something else again.
BTW, although I originally thought, as you do, that Snape would die to save Harry and thereby expiate his sins, I am no longer so sure of this - for several reasons, too long to go into here. I will say I am no longer as sure as I once was that he did kill Dumbledore, though Dumbledore is definitely dead. And I am convinced that, at this point in the story (the end of HBP), Severus is more truly Dumbledore's man than Harry is. Of course, that's just the way I see it, but I do have my reasons.
Thanks again for your comment; glad you enjoyed it.