[Alkhin]

Amen to that...although I do like Harry. I was actually frightened for the boy at the end of GoF...hadn't been that worried over a character since...well, since Frodo! Which OoP was sort of anti-climactic...spoiler in white : it hurt more that an innocent bystander like Cedric was wasted than Sirius...not to say I dont like the character of Sirius...but one kind of expects the good-guy-who-is-so-loveable-and-loved-by-the-main-character to sacrifice himself.

so tell me your thoughts on Snape?!

[JenB]

But it wasn't a self-sacrifice. It was really dumb. And Dumbledore could have prevented it.

Snape... I think he's a very confused man. He is firmly on the side of angels but isn't nice. I think he is going to have a major role to play and may even end up dead, and that he is going to have yet more conflicted guilt issues over Sirius - since if Snape had been able to get over his hatred of Harry, Harry would have learned what he needed to not to be deceived by Voldemort's legilmancy.