Disclaimer – What did I tell me? Me no = Rowling.
A/N – Ok, right, the first place I posted this I caused a little bit of controversy, simply because some people agreed, and others didn't. But that's all gravy with me… So if you have a point to make, make it! I want to read it! Just so long as it's valid, and not 'Your view is crap'. That's just rude… Luckily not many of you are like that, so enough of my rambling! On with business!
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Snivellus
For years now we've thought that James Potter was just,
A daring brave student, and at Quidditch supreme;
We did not pause to ponder, or consider the point,
That unlike to pretences he could be cruel and mean.
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We judged the Potions Master by his treatment to Harry;
And yet in a way, could he lay claim to right?
He knew of the ridicule that he once had suffered,
And was this his way of putting things right?
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For we all wear glazed masks to this unforgiving world;
We all pretend that we're something we aren't;
Severus Snape to this rule's no exception,
And cold though he seems, underneath that's a heart.
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As a child he had witnesses his mother beaten black and blue,
His father a tyrant, who was bitter and cold;
No child should ever see things such as these,
For the nightmares stay with you, even when you're old.
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So he at last comes to Hogwarts, now hardened already,
A bleak out look on life before it had started.
And now the Marauders ruin school for him too;
The safest thing he thinks, is turning to the Dark Mark.
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Whether James Potter pushed him to darkness or not,
While we may loath Snape for the crimes in his past,
No one's born evil, others make who we are;
Don't ever forget, he was swayed to that path.
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I would just like to say… When I write 'Marauders' as a general rule I just mean James and Sirius. I know that Remus and Peter did very little to help, but they didn't do much to stop it either…