Is Snape Really Evil?

[Asphodel]

I still believe Snape is innocent. I mean, all those times the trio has suspected Snape, and it always turned out that he was innocent. That means that J.K.R was enforcing the fact that Snape was innocent. Also, Dumbledore and Snape looked into each other's eye's before Snape killed Dumbledore. And though crazed Dumbledore/Snape shippers may think else of this, I think that it means they were communicating through legilimency, and Dumbledore asked Snape to kill him because he was weak, and Harry needed to find Voldemort on his own. Also, Snape needed to build up trust with Voldemort, so killing Dumbledore would do just that.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

It's so funny.
JK Rowling has spent the entire series tricking Harry into thinking Snape is evil, and then turning it around and finding an explanation.
And then people say they knew it all along.
People really can be sucked it very easily.
If nothing else in this entire series I have been sure of, I am definitely sure of this... Snape is not evil, he may not be good, but he is not evil.

[Asphodel]

*nods head vigorously* J.K.R wouldn't have wasted all that ink.

[Phinea Rogue]

Snape innocent? No way. But neither is he entirely evil, I believe, or entirely good. He's probably both...

[Tanuki]

Simply put... JKR played us. She shoved "Snape isn't evil" so long, we started to believe it; then she throws the twist in... "yes he is." It's great writing because it took her so long to set us up for that

[crystallised_pineapple]

it was done so well even though i know, well think i know, the truth i still can't trust it... lol

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

I'm annoyed because I can see both sides of the story. But I think it just seems so convenient to have Snape evil.
Besides, yet another reason for my theory is that JKR wouldn't have shown us that Spinner's End Unbreakable Vow scene if she hadn't wanted us to think he's evil.
And yet, I can see the other side's just as convincing as well...

[Asphodel]

Well, J.K.R is doing the exact same thing she did in the first book, she led us to believe Snape was the bad guy. I, for one, fell for it, so I'm not falling for it again.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Ahem.. If I was one that believed Snape was guilty I would have something rather ironic to say right now...

Well, J.K.R is doing the exact same thing she did in the first book, she led us to believe Snape was the bad guy. I, for one, fell for it, so I'm not falling for it again.

... The opposite might reply that you are falling for the opposite this time, because you believe she would do the same thing again.
It's the exact replica of a scenario I saw on old Bewitched last week.
Now, I don't believe it, but if she would do it, I can see how she could be having a quiet chuckle at us right now...

[Asphodel]

I can see that point of view, but she should have realized that tons of people would really believe Snape is evil. Now don't get me wrong, Snape isn't my favorite character, but I just can't see him going evil. It seems highly unlike Dumbledore to plead that someone not kill him.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Exactly! Couldn't agree more. Dumbledore, in my opinion, would never plead like that.

I think he was pleading for him to do anything it took to save Draco, and if it meant killing him, then so be it.

[Asphodel]

Yeah, I bet he saw the good in Draco.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Or maybe just the naivity.
Draco's young and was over his head. Dumbledore knew he would never kill him, remember?

[Asphodel]

Yeah, and if they can get Draco away from his father soon enough, he might go on the good side. At least we know Draco isn't as bad as Voldemort, who had no trouble killing at his age.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Well to be honest I don't know whether it was the killing that troubled Draco. It may have been more the fact that it was Dumbledore he was supposed to kill.