I just wrote a really long response and lj ate it! I hate livejournal sometimes!
But, basically, I appreciate your comment but disagree. To me, Severus and Harry are very much alike. They are both fully human, because they have been loved. As a result, both of them have a capacity for love (and yes, I think we do see that in Snape! I was very impressed by his gentleness toward both Draco and Narcissa in HBP). This gives them the ability to make moral choices. Voldemort, poor crippled soul, is just a monster; he's not capable of love and therefore cannot make moral choices in the fullest sense, if at all.
I could go into much greater detail about what's really up with Harry, who he is, and who Snape is, but I've done that in earlier essays, so I won't bore you!
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Date: 2006-12-05 11:54 pm (UTC)But, basically, I appreciate your comment but disagree. To me, Severus and Harry are very much alike. They are both fully human, because they have been loved. As a result, both of them have a capacity for love (and yes, I think we do see that in Snape! I was very impressed by his gentleness toward both Draco and Narcissa in HBP). This gives them the ability to make moral choices. Voldemort, poor crippled soul, is just a monster; he's not capable of love and therefore cannot make moral choices in the fullest sense, if at all.
I could go into much greater detail about what's really up with Harry, who he is, and who Snape is, but I've done that in earlier essays, so I won't bore you!