Mass murder

Should have just killed Harry off. I'd rather have lost Harry than the other 3 :'(

I thought it was just me who thought that! I didn't want to say, because of all the hate i would get :/

I've just re-read the books and am on the first watch of the films, up to the 3rd one so far. I do not understand the love for Snape at all, he's an absolute knob! Yeah I get that the whole unrequited love thing is hard but he's a prick to everyone not in slitheryn, not just Harry. Can someone explain?!

I know! And when he made everyone realise Lupin was a werewolf when he was keeping it s secret

Exactly, he tries to undermine all the other teachers all the time, he is a typical children's book bad guy up to the last minute and it just isn't enough to redeem him!

The love for Snape I believe comes from the underlying fear that he feels towards Harry. It's one of those "what could've been" things, where Snape and Harry could've been good friends in an alternate reality, but because Snape is afraid of the relationship Lily had with James, instead of honoring her memory, he can't see past the fact that Harry product of her romance with James. If he did, he'd realize Harry is much more his mother than his father, and that Snape has lost yet another chance to love Lily. It's the tragedy of his character that people like--the fact that so many things could've right for him, but that they didn't, and so that makes a lot of his actions forgivable.

That wasn't true.