Snape is one of my favorite characters now. I expected something like that but the Lily part was completely unexpected although I kind of had a feeling that the hatred towards James wasn't just because of his "arrogance." Like Libbi Granger said, his death was romantically tragic.

well when i first had read order of phoneix in snapes worst memory it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OBLIVOUS that snape loved lily! i mean like which girl would help a guy in a prank if she knew the guy liked him? hmmm well i thought it was oblivous! and soo i predicted that jk was going to do a chapter about snape cos well it told us abit more and proved my prediction! still though i didnt doubt snape that much as others.. i mean like i had an idea that dumbledores death was planned but didnt know about the elders wand! and my gosh its more then two character died it more like 6 for crying OUT LOUD JK WHAT ARE YOU trying to do to us who loved fred, snape, lupin and tonks!

I must admit: I cried the most over Severus Snape then any other character in Deathly Hallows. Especially after reading The Prince's Tale.
I knew all along that Snape had killed Dumbledore under Dumbledore's order. I knew Snape wasn't evil, mean yes, but not evil.
While reading DH I started to doubt myself. The way he was acting, being Voldemort's right hand man. The we find out he gave Voldemort the right day Harry would leave Privet Drive, blew George's ear off, became Headmaster. All that stuff made me want to hate Snape. He was being such a git in my opinion.
The way he died was horrible. It made me hate Voldemort even more, which is impossible. And then after giving Harry the momery. Do you guys remember what he said? "Look...at...me..." He wanted to look into the eyes that reminded him of his life-long love before dying. *cries* I only realized that after reading The Prince's Tale which made me cry even more.
Reading and picturing Snape cry in the memory totally crushed my heart. It was so mind blowing, so shocking. He didn't just hate James for being a show-off, arrogant, mediocre. You know, I never like James after reading OotP and I especially don't like him now. He was a bully to Snape since day one, he was arrogant, a show-off, and he took away Snape's one true love. He spent pretty much his whole life trying to make-up for having told Voldemort about the prophecy and killing her. And most importantly, he was always Dumbledore's man.
Snape was an incredibly complex and great character. He's definitely my favorite character of the whole series.
And what Harry said in the epilogue: "Albus Severus, you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew."
*cries* I love Severus Snape.

In the last 6 books, I thought that Snape was bad. And when I read his story and his death,I felt very bad and very sad. I had always called him a git and a traitor.

I had predicted that Snape loved Lily.So sad how he died.So sad how he was always misunderstood.

Yeah, Lily's was a doe as well.

When I first read HBP I was convinced Snape was good... upon re-reading, I began to think that maybe JK was double-bluffing and he appeared as he was - evil. I'm glad I was wrong!

Yep, Snape's Patronus was the same as Lily's.
A Doe.
And obviously it has to do with her, to make a Patronus, u need a sense of happiness or love *if I'm not wrong thats wht we got to know in PoA*or maybe I am wrong I have no idea *

But yes Snape loved Lily too much, to love her even after she'd married James, and thats probably why he had the same patronus as her.
He loved her even after she'd died. Don't u guys feel that Lily's eyes are so much talked about in the book, and between Dumbledore and Snape too when Dumbledore tells him that Lily's dead but her son survives, and has the same eyes as hers. Snape breaks down.

I dont know but I always supported the Snape is good theory!
HBP confused me, but I dont know the talk Hagrid over heard between Snape and Dumbledore, and Dumbledore pleading Severus to kill him,* which a lot of ppl tht was Please dont kill me*, anyhow I'd still hoped and tht Snape might be the Inside man.

I had completely expected this. I predicted all along that Snape was good. I didn't expect that he would die. I didn't want him to. He was my favourite character. Now he's my hero! When I read about him killing Dumbledore, I was sure it was a plan between him and Dumbledore. I also expected that he was helping Harry because he liked Lily. I'm glad that my thoughts were true. However, I'm really sorry that Snape wasn't returned with the love that he had for Lily, and I'm truly sorry for Snape's death. I'm so proud of you, Severus!!

I had predicted that he loved Lily all along, that was one of the obvious story lines. However I did not predict the way in which JK would plot him as being portrayed as both, in a sense, good and bad. I thought the way in which she portrayed him was excellent as it was not what I expected.

However, I have to say that I did not except him to die. Even though many people did, I did not for some reason, and when Voldemort killed him, I felt a pang of sadness towards him, the fact that he was not able to fully express himself to everyone (except Harry of course who saw his memories)

Although, I kind of had an inkling that his patronus would have been the silver doe, basically because I could not think of any one else really.

What scarred me was i alwaysed hated Snape and then i read this and i was like OMG he loved her.After that i but the book down for like two seconds and said that this was all so confusing and i sort of got a head ache.

No, i wasn't at all surprised by SS. I knew he was on the right side eand I supposed that Lily had something to do with him (they were parteners in one of my fanfics). I was painfully aware that he couldn't survive the last book. But to die in that way, being betrayed again another time, alone (despite the fact that the last thing he saw was Lily's eyes), far away from the main action, were heroes showed up, without even the great gesture of saving HP from Voldemort and dying in the act, without nobody feeling some grief for him, as nobody yet knew of his memories... Wasn't it really to much? Wasn't it really too hard a blow on a man who had NEVER had the chance of being SAVED? He was born already marked, already wrong, already unloved. And he died exactly the same way he had always lived: alone, deeply inside. I felt desperately sorry for him and for the lack of possibilities that charcterised his life. Are you any familiar with Star Wars ep I-III? Anakin was chosen for failure, his fall was unavoidable, even if every time it seemed that so little change could have saved him from perdition... Snape was the same: condamned even before birth.
Dumbledore said him that he was afraid they sorted him to soon... Just throw that Hat away, it made the hugest mistake of the world! Everything for SS could have been different, if it didn't.
Sorry I was long, I am still so sad...

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I always thought that Snape was really good, but I never thought that he loved Lily. Poor Snape, that part of the story made me sad for him And I cried more for his death than for any of the others. I loved Snape a lot and didn't want him to die

All I can say is that I knew it!!!!! I knew he killed Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders and that Dumbledore was already dying due to the curse that blackened his hand! I knew Snape turned when Lily died! But I did not ever guess he would die like he did! That was sad, but it was good that Harry was able to be there so that Snape knew he would have his memories and know what Dumbledore needed him to do, which his very life hung on him doing! Snape saved Harry again!!!!

I also have to say that Snape is one, if not the one, of my fav characters. I knew all along that he was good. I just had that deep feeling that he was good and that Dumbledore wouldnt have made a mistake like that. But i have to say that i never expected that whole Lilly and Snape thing. Who would of known that they knew eachother before they went to Hogwarts. I didn't!!

Snapes death I cried!!! And with that stupid snake which (thank goodness) is dead!!! And then after i saw the memory, i cried even harder!!!

Snape never really got what he wanted, except that last part when he wanted to look into Harry's eyes to see Lily's one last time. It was sad, it almost made me cry, but I didn't. I personally think Snape should've lived, but...I thought Harry's kid was so cute, being named after Dumbledore and Snape...