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Harry Potter: To trust Snape or not? 18 Articles

  • 1 of 18

    by Suzanne Wesley - Babies Steward

    One of the beautiful things about the character of Severus Snape is that we don't know whether to trust him or not. Personally, I like to think that perhaps he is a double-agent but I have my hopes that Dumbledore saw so...read more

  • 2 of 18

    by Dawn Duddy

    Two words that do NOT fit together are Trust and Snape. And yet, Albus Dumbledore trusted Snape with his life. Then again, Snape did TAKE his life. Things that make you go hmmmmmm. I absolutely love to hate Snape. ...read more

  • 3 of 18

    by Dave Simmons

    It's very easy to consider Snape an untrustworthy character; Rowling spends an awful lot of time through the series setting him up as a very unlikeable character. He's unpleasant to the hero, play favourites, is unpleasant...read more

  • 4 of 18

    by Danielle Friedl

    The fact is Snape is a double agent. But for who? He's either on the side of good and playing Voldemort for the fool or he's playing Dumbledore and he is truly a villain. There are a lot of questions we want answere...read more

  • 5 of 18

    by Patrick Kenworthy

    Dumbledore trusted him despite his deception over the prophecy, 'it was a mistake for which he was deeply sorry' dumbledore tried to convince harry as he said. The order of the phoenix were forced to believe that snape co...read more

  • 6 of 18

    by Melissa Rachiele

    Without a doubt, I trust Snape. May it please the court and members of the jury, I will now present my case. Dumbledore pronounced more than once that Snape was doing work for the Order, and that he and Sirius were n...read more

  • 7 of 18

    by Socrates

    I want more than anything in the world to NOT trust Snape. His character has been an antagonistic to Harry from the get go. I think J. K. Rowling is wonderful at planning out these books out. I know that Dumbledore trusted...read more

  • 8 of 18

    by Lady Amalthea

    Dumbledore has always trusted Snape. One presumes that means something. However, I suspect it tells us more about the character of Dumbledore than about the character of Snape. It is important that Dumbledore never ...read more

  • 9 of 18

    by Ronald Gibson

    I recently obtained a couple bookmarks that are apparently inspireed by this debate. It is an advertisement for reserving Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows and on one side it says {Severus Snape} FRIEND and lists six re...read more

  • 10 of 18

    by Vicky Harper

    Trust Snape to be in Book 7 what he has been throughout the whole series: Harry's true antagonist. Whose side he is on remains to be seen, though there are indications of where his "true loyalty" lies. Quirrel/Voldemor...read more

  • 11 of 18

    by Azlina Cohen

    I know Snape killing Dumbledore was probably the single worst thing he could have done and I don't deny that he's a coward but that doesn't mean he's evil. Everything Snape has ever done has been in his own best interes...read more

  • 12 of 18

    by Ryan Yost

    In chapter 2 of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" we saw Snape make an unbreakable vow with Narcissia to help Draco in "his task" and explained to Bellatrix how he was hoodwinking Dumbledore. It is my belie...read more

  • 13 of 18

    by Basil R. Lee

    This is going to be a very short article. In all the articles I have read, here or anywhere else, seems to miss one very important point about Dumbledore. I know this is an article about whether or not Snape is trustwort...read more

  • 14 of 18

    by Mark Dykeman

    I think that Harry is going to be tested by his ability to forgive or otherwise call a truce with Snape. Maybe there is someone or something dear to Snape, some human side, that we haven't seen yet. Kind of like Darth Vade...read more

  • 15 of 18

    by Paige Riter

    Snape is to be trusted. Sure he has been awful to Harry in all the books right from the get-go, but could that mean that he's trying to protect him from something? Snape is an odd person. He is in the Order, but yet is ...read more

  • 16 of 18

    by Jake Berensen

    As much as I've hated Snape the entire time and never felt he could be trusted, and I wasn't at all surprised to find out he had killed Dumbledore, I can't get over the fact that Dumbledore trusted Snape. Dumbledore wasn't...read more

  • 17 of 18

    by -xKingdomHeartsx-

    I trust Snape 100%. I mean he has been helping Harry, and Dumbledore from my perspective. Snape saved Harry at the Quidditch match. Me and my friend have a theory that Snape only told Voldemort half of the prophecy. The on...read more

  • 18 of 18

    by David Kopczyk

    I trust Snape totally even though he killed Dumbledore. Dumbledore trusted Snape to the very end and so will I. Many readers will remember that in the first book, Snape saved Harry's life from Professor Quirrel/Voldemort...read more

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