Snape is an asshole get over it.
I'm sick of romantic!Snape, and rich!Snape. I'm sick of secretlybeautiful!Snape. And I'm also sick of Really-on-Dumbledores-side-he-asked-me-to-kill-him-honest!Snape. Especially when the above is served with a helping of wangst and Snape is crying silent silver tears and cutting himself. I like Snape because he a jerk, because he is self-serving,
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While I agree with the general idea that there's more to Snape's apparant treachery than meets the eye (is anything that simple in the Harry Potter books?), I'm fed up of this 'Snape is the true hero of the series!' shite.
What the possibility of Snape being basically good will prove is that sometimes people on 'the good side' are utter bastards. It won't mean that Snape is a pure and noble man, a tragic sufferer of stolen glory and a victim of the bias of nasty, arrogant Harry. There is only so much bias a boy can have. Or was Trevor the toad biased, too, when he thought Snape was willing to kill him as an example of Neville's lousy potion-making? I suppose Snape was offering the wisdom of harsh reality when he insulted Hermione about her teeth? Snape is a bitter, unpleasant bully. He was a victim, it's true, but that doesn't give him a permission slip to be an arsehole to everybody, and especially not to the young people he's supposed to be teaching.
And I like Snape, same as you. I really enjoy reading him, in the same way I enjoy reading Umbridge or Lockhart. The emotion he provokes is always fun. But I'm often too embarassed to call myself a Snape fan because of the other kind of Snape fan. I wish people would stop reading between the lines so much that they actually squint past the character written on the pages. Snape is a fascinating character as he is. He doesn't need to be glorified on top of everything.
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Not all characters need to be genuis, good looking, multi-gallionaires to be good characters, that you want to read about.
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