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That's one thing that I will hand Rowling in that she was surprisingly willing to just let her characters start out as morally repugnant without being flat-out evil and stay that way. Snape for example gets invested in working for the "good guys" because his waifu that he remained unhealthily obsessed with until death was killed by Voldemort and he's only protecting Harry because of her. He doesn't have some grand moral awakening where he chooses to be heroic because it's the right thing to do but because he has next-level oneitis for his childhood crush. Same with Malfoy who doesn't have some grand "I will be a hero now" realisation but is mostly just in it for himself and his loved ones.
Now whether Rowling did that deliberately or it was just accidental writing is debatable but it is there.
Yeah its kind of incongruous how everybody both in and outside the book just accepts Snape as a heroic good guy when its crystal clear he only cares about Lily and relentlessly bullies Harry for no practical reason and to the end never shows a drop of remorse for it. He even spells out in a conversation with Dumbledore. A weaker/less oblivious writer would have included the obligatory neat redemption arc. The only thing we get from Rowling is the pensieve scene which is kind of lowkey hilarious if you put it together. Hey potter, as my second to last act in this world I just want to let you know I too got bullied as a kid so thats why I had to take it out on you when you were even younger kid as a fully grown adult. So we're square.
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