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Let's make one thing perfectly clear, Severus Snape is a most un-likable character. Sarcastic, snide, vindictive and just down right nasty especially to Harry. Harry! One of the sweetest, most polite kids you could come across. How could anyone like the man who hates Harry so much? Ah, but Dumbledore did, or did he?

Yes, Dumbledore. The man who knew the reason behind Snape's true loyalty. Who would have guessed? But we all should have trusted JK Rowling as Dumbledore trusted Snape, shouldn't we? She gave us all the clues. She showed us several times the struggle Snape held within himself. He hated Harry because he was James' kid, looked like him, played Quidditch like him, was adored like him, was popular like him and most importantly, he was a constant reminder of what he had lost and not just due to Voldemort.

Everyone, it seemed, hated Snape. Everyone but one, Lily Evans, green-eyed Lily Evans, Harry's mother. Now we know why Snape always stared into Harry's eyes, Lily's eyes. It was merely to remind himself what he owed her.

Seeing Harry took him right back to those school days when everyone made fun of him. Slimy, skinny, brainy, un-popular Snape versus James Potter, stud-of-the-school, who fell hard for Lily Evans and eventually won her heart. Oh, but how could Snape not hate Harry? Harry was everything he couldn't compete with back in school nor after becoming an adult. Harry was the child he could have had with Lily had he not chosen the Death Eaters over her. He couldn't have both. She told him that.

That they had been such great friends was mind-blowing. Why then did he call her a mudblood? Slip of the tongue? Because that was all he heard in the Slytherin common room? Because of his new friends' the Death Eaters? Oh, but he blew that, didn't he? And he knew it. Snape caused Lily to turn from him. He forced her right into James' arms because he picked the Death Eaters over her. He caused her death, blamed himself and he just couldn't get over that.

The impression was that Dumbledore didn't like Severus very much when he asked him to place a protection over Lily, only Lily.

"And her husband and son? You don't care what happens to them?" Dumbledore asked sharply.

Yes, Dumbledore did trust Snape but the question still remained of whether he truly liked him. Dumbledore understood human weakness. He had his own after all. Harry understood it too after all was said and done. Harry learned the truth and now calls Severus Snape the bravest and one of the two best Headmasters Hogwarts ever had, even naming one of his children after him. That means Harry thinks rather well of Severus Snape just like his mother and Dumbledore had.

Friend or foe? Really, is there a question of it anymore?

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