why did snape return to the good side

[wait45]

I believe that snape left Voldemor because he was in love with harry's mother.
When he found out that V wants her to die, he came back to DD.
Snape only talks about Harry's dad never his mom. And his behaviour to harry is not hate but guilt, he saved him after all in book 1. It would be a good twist, and would also reveal something shocking abnout harry's mom( the most common rumour).
he is jealous of harry's father = hate

[LadySnape]

I have to disagree. Lily Potter was, after all, a Mudblood. Both her parents were muggles. And she was in Gryffindor. I highly doubt that Snape (a Slytherin) would be in love or have any feelings like that for Lily, being who she was.

However, I have no idea WHY Snape would return to the good side. So you may be right. After all, how much do we really know about Snape?

[Lupin]

What makes you think Voldemort wanted Lily to die? Didn't he say "Stand aside, silly girl" and "She didn't have to die" or something similar? Seems to me that V wasn't really out to get her.

--Lupin

[Scellanis]

yep...thats exactly what i thought...

lily only died because she sacrificed herself in an attempt to save harry...that wouldnt have been a sacrifice if volde was gonna kill her anyway would it.....

[Beccaroo]

Why did Voldemort want to kill Harry anyway? Sorry, i haven't read the books for ages and i keep forgetting things!

I'll scurry away now to read...!

Becca
x

[Scellanis]

it doesnt give a reason for the first attempt....now he just wants to kill harry to prove that he can i think...and also because potter symbolises the fact that voldemort is not invincible so potter has to die by voldemort before voldemort will ever be taken seriously as a dark wizard again...while ever harry (the baby he failed to kill) is hanging around people are always gonna think voldemort isnt as powerful as he is wanting them to think

but for the first attempt...i dont know...maybe hes after wiping out the potter bloodline/family name....that would explain the need to kill both men of the family but not lily....who married in

[Beccaroo]

Ohh gottcha i dont know why he wanted to kill Hrry in the first place either! It must be explained in one of the coming books - i hope! As this is puzzling me!

[Scellanis]

yes...that might be what the second quote released from book 5 is about...when dumbledore says he has to tell harry something...

[2F2Type_R]

i hope JKR will explain why Snape turned his back on Voldemort and became a spy for Dumbledore...

Out of every character i've ever come across, Severus Snape by far makes the most inconsistent decisions of all.
He turns his back on the dark side but favours one of the death-eater's son.
I mean, you'd think Snape would despise Draco since the kid does have the markings of a true death-eater, right?

Oh well, maybe he just wants to be noticed 8)

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"Longbottom, if brains were gold you'd be poorer than Weasley... and that's saying something." — Draco Malfoy

[star_light]

I know this is going to sound nieve but i think snape came back to the light because he relized what he was doing was wrong and/or got tired of the killing.I think he favors Malfoy because he is a Slytherin and I don't think hes that horrible of a student. His dad says that he let hermione get better grades then him but thats not saying to much.

[Mistress Siana]

Did you ever think of what might happen if Snape DIDN'T favour Slytherins? If Malfoy and Crabbe and Goyle, who obiously think of him him as one of their kind, got suspiciuos that he might be up to something else? I really think that even if he hated Draco's gut, he'd behave the same way just to stay alive. A dead spy is useless after all.
However, I have thought about his true loyality...we know that Snape was a friend of Avery, Rosiers, the Lestranges etc which late became Death Eaters-like Snape. So I personally think it's obvious that he knew what they were doing. But Avery has never been punished, for they couldn't prove that he didn't act under Imperius. The Lestranges were only arrested when they tortured the Longbottoms LONG AFTER Voldemort's fall. That means Snape never 'betrayed' his fríends and gave their names to the Ministry. Why? For I think, if they would have had a witness to testify their involvement with Vokdemort, they would have been sent to Azkaban!

[Holly Golightly]

Now, doesn't all that make is seem possible that Snape faked his return to the light to spy on DD??? I know that he's been looking out for/sorta saving Harry, but that could just be because of the life-debt to James. Other than that, he could really still be working for the baddies!!!

[Neo]

I really don't think so; I mean DD is no fool, so for him to trust Snape something must have happened (something that probable we will know in further books, since Harry asked DD, and he didn't want to answer)

[Holly Golightly]

Not sayign that he is a fool, but Snape must be very good, because he's definately fooling someone...

Either he went spy for DD for ture, like we've been told in the book, and he was fooling Voldie for a while, because how can you spy if your not still with the baddies pretending to be one of them...
OR, he's still working for Voldie and fooling DD into believeing that he's spying on Voldie..

SO, he's either fooled DD or Voldie, both very inteligent, both quickwitted... just one evil, one good!

So obviously, Snape is one devious little boy!!!

[Neo]

I totally agree on that; but DD trusts Snape, and Voldemort seems to know Snape is a spy for Voldemort and has the intention to kill him (so it seems Snape is good, of course Jo exactly tries to make things look one way and the change it, but I'm not sure about this one)