(1)Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
I have several problems with Snape, as stated before. I feel his motivations are a little weak -- at least in far as how much they (or how little they) change his personality. Snape loved Lily. That's great motivation. The problem is... throughout the series, he sees Harry as untalented. Incapable. He's below average. And yet this below average boy is who is tasked to defeat Lord Voldemort, the one who killed the great love of Snape's life. And when Dumbledore asks him to make sure that Harry gets the Sword of Gryffindor, what is Snape's reaction? "Okay" His only question is why Harry needs the sword. Not "Do you really think that he's up to the task?"
He has some hidden depths -- but the problem is they're TOO hidden. We don't really get any hints or inclinations towards his hidden depths.
And I have to wonder if he ever really realized that he essentially made Harry an orphan. The boy he tortures every chance he gets -- the boy who is the son of the great love of his life (yes, he looks like James, but Snape is still a bully, and he's far crueler than necessary towards Harry, and even Hermione). Did he feel no remorse for getting James killed at all? I still remember the situation of "life debt" being brought up in regards to Pettigrew. Should Snape not had the same similar inclinations towards James, even if it were only slightly? Did he at least not feel guilt for getting Lily killed, Lily being Harry's mother? Did the connection between mother and son just go over his head? Surely not, seeing as Harry has his mother's eyes.
Harry is a far more forgiving person than Snape, obviously. Given that his second son is named Albus Severus. Snape bullied Harry terribly, and even affected his class work (Harry is actually decent at potions even without the Half-Blood Prince helping him)
I think Harry gave Snape more of a chance, than Snape ever gave him. Harry was HORRIFIED when he learned what his father had done to Snape. The same Snape that had bullied him all those years.
Dumbledore of course has some of the same problems. We don't really learn much about him, until he's already dead. But then again -- who's side he is on is always clear. And I think a lot of it matches his personality better than it does for Snape.
"You disgust me," said Dumbledore, and Harry had never heard so much contempt in his voice.
It almost feels like Snape from that point, never really changed that much. I don't feel as if he'd feel remorse if Voldemort had spared Lily, but caused her so much anguish by killing her husband and son.
And worst of all he becomes a bully just like James Potter. I often wonder if he ever saw it or not.
Dumbledore is... great with humor. His funeral is a tear jerker, especially when it comes to Harry thinking of Dumbledore's idea of a few words. From the moment Harry got that Chocolate Frog Card, Harry looked up to Dumbledore. And he was Dumbledore's man through and through. He wasn't perfect -- he could've stationed a real wizard to watch Harry. He could've made sure Harry had occlumency training over the summer. He could've done many things differently. And yet, for the most part, things go right.
Dumbledore in a world of magic, was a bit magical himself.
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See You In Another Life, Brother.
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