Dumbledore and snape

            In harry potter and the Deathly Hallows Severus Snape is redeemed for everything he had ever done. We see this in the epilogue when we find out Harry had named his son Albus Severus. But we find out that Severus had been playing a double agent the whole time and was truly working with Dumbledore the entire series. This is the best way I could have hoped for with the ending of the series. It was a true twist.  Through out the whole series Rowling keeps Snape’s past a secret, letting a few things here and there.

            Our view on Dumbledore is also changed through the seventh book.  We find that he was once consumed with rising to power that he didn’t want to be bothered by things beneath him. But we find in Harry’s conversation with Dumbledore on the Platform near the end. He talks about how after Arianas death that he realized that he had become consumed with power and the hallows. Harry sees remorse in Dumbledore this time and sees that he is what Dumbledore had tried to be but couldn’t. Dumbledore could have never been the leader that harry was, and we see this in the line that Dumbledore says that power is best given to those who don’t want it but take it reluctantly when it is thrust upon them.

            Dumbledore and Snape are two of the most mysterious characters through out the whole series. Rowling pulls the rug out from under us when she reveals that Dumbledore had such a terrible past, and that Snape was childhood friedns with Harrys mother.  I think that she does this because she wants us to stop assuming things in life, and in literature. She gave us no real proof to hate snape until the sixth book when he kills Dumbledore, but we hate him. She does the same thing with Dumbledore but we love him.