Who Is Snape's Misunderstood Hero?

In the young adult novel, Harry Potter, people often see Snape as a misunderstood hero, a guy who had a terrible life but somehow prevailed, but he’s bad person. He’s obsessive, a bully, and just a terrible guy.
A lot of Harry Potter fans see Snape’s and Lily’s love as a sad, lost love. Although he might’ve had actual feelings for her, he handled them horribly. Snape mixed up his feelings and mistook obsession for love. He often acted like she was entitled to him, instead of the perfect one for him like James acted towards Lily. Snape would act like he’s to good for her but once he didn't get what he wanted he was horrible to her. Snape spent his whole life proving that this women belonged to him when she belonged to no one. If he really did love her, he’d want what's best for her and everyone she loves to be safe. Why then, was he so horrible to Harry? If he did love her then why would he call her such a derogatory term? The worst racial slur in the wizarding world. “Mudblood.” He was so captivated by Lily he didn’t even notice that they didn’t fit together. …show more content…
He was constantly making fun of Hermione’s face and her intelligence. One example is when she was cursed to have buck teeth, and he says to an already insecure, teenage girl “I see no difference.” What kind of teacher, ‘role model’ says that? He also said to her that she was an “insufferable know-it-all”, when really she was one of the only students interested in actually participating in class. Another reason is he was horrible to Neville that Snape was Neville’s boggart. A boggart is your biggest fear and currently at this time there was a mass murderer running around and a death eater who tortured his parents to insanity, but Snape was still his worst