Snape is a fascinating character, but he used his position of authority in a school to take out all of his issues on the children theoretically under his care, which is a fundamentally unacceptable thing to do. If he’d been behaving that way towards adults who could get away from him, or stand up to him effectively, that would be different – but he was a terrible teacher, he bullied his students, and his actions damaged a lot of childhoods. A brave cause doesn’t make up for that.

awed-frog: I hope the Snape ask didn’t sound too confrontational – basically what I’m saying is, it’s probably the children … More