Her bravery showed an incredible dedication to what she believed to be important, and you can admire someone for having the courage of their convictions regardless of what those convictions happen to be -- but her admirable determination didn't make her any nicer, or excuse her nastiness.
Yes. My traditional shorthand for Snape has been "a bastard on the side of Light."
Similarly, I wonder (maybe this is explained) what course Snape would have taken if Lily had gone over to Voldemort's side.
It's never even raised. For all I know, he might have been perfectly content to spend the rest of his life (at least until the Order of the Phoenix caught up with them) as a Death Eater whose wife shared his flair for Potions; and I suspect he would have been much less interesting.
Was he dedicated to her because she was better than him, or just because he liked her?
Because he saw her playing with magic one day, I suppose, and she listened to him, and he liked her. It's only after her death that she becomes his ideal; his Patronus. One wonders what she would have said to him.
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Yes. My traditional shorthand for Snape has been "a bastard on the side of Light."
Similarly, I wonder (maybe this is explained) what course Snape would have taken if Lily had gone over to Voldemort's side.
It's never even raised. For all I know, he might have been perfectly content to spend the rest of his life (at least until the Order of the Phoenix caught up with them) as a Death Eater whose wife shared his flair for Potions; and I suspect he would have been much less interesting.
Was he dedicated to her because she was better than him, or just because he liked her?
Because he saw her playing with magic one day, I suppose, and she listened to him, and he liked her. It's only after her death that she becomes his ideal; his Patronus. One wonders what she would have said to him.