Re: Snape. I can, in the sober light of one year later, see a plausible argument that he's Dumbledore's man through and through (although I'm reserving judgment on whether I believe it), but my first answer was "none of the above." I think he's been serving the good side for the better part of six books, but that doesn't change the fact that he was always a man doing the right thing for the wrong reason, and I don't think this exactly makes him "good" in JKR's worldview. I also think there's a very good chance that he does fall under the spell of the Dark Arts once again during his term as DADA teacher.
Basically, I think he's the Dark Arts equivalent of a dry drunk, if that makes any sense.
Oh, and count me as astonished that there's only one other person who thinks Harry is going to return to Hogwarts as a student. I will be shocked if he does not, frankly -- what he intends at the end of HBP and what he's actually going to do are two very different things, and I think fate has a few curve balls in store for him over the summer.
*Shrugs* You do have a point, though, and I think he'd want to return. Hogwarts isn't a regular, "ew school" for him, no matter what fandom seems to think. (I hate when people apply their lives to the canon and therefore miss stuff like that - "but school sucks, man" - but that's another rant for another time).
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Basically, I think he's the Dark Arts equivalent of a dry drunk, if that makes any sense.
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*Shrugs* You do have a point, though, and I think he'd want to return. Hogwarts isn't a regular, "ew school" for him, no matter what fandom seems to think. (I hate when people apply their lives to the canon and therefore miss stuff like that - "but school sucks, man" - but that's another rant for another time).