Motivations, Pt 2.

[vjmerri]

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Date: 8/10/00 9:58 pm  (ET)

By: brooksindy
Date: 8/10/00 6:08 pm

This followup also contains GoF spoilers, so the new members not yet
caught up on reading may want to skip this.
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put in Slytherin? Would he have accepted Harry more? I wonder if some of
Snape's attitude may just be favoritism toward his own house. What must
he think of Malfoy, Crabb & Goyle, too, knowing of their parents? (Plus,
what must those parents think of their kids being under Snape, if they
know he was the spy in *their* midst

ME:
I don't think the other DE's knew that Snape was a true renegade. After
all, the rest of them were trying to fit back into the "good" wizard
world, so they probably assumed that Snape was doing the same thing.

Yes, Snape definitely seems to favor his house but the animosity towards
Harry goes much MUCH deeper than house rivalry. He lets Malfoy get
away with murder and seems, just my thoughts, to favor him even over
other Slytherins. Maybe this is to lull Lucious into a false sense of
commaraderie or maybe its just the house. The problem is that Snape is
not just a little against Harry. He is grossly amazingly unfair in the
points situation. The huge points that Professor Dumbledore give out
probably don't make up for the huge losses that Harry and his friends
seem to sustain from Snape. The only time Snape had a right to severely
punish Harry he couldn't prove it was him - that time Harry threw the
wet start exploding whatever into the cauldron in book two.

Plus, I know that some people are starting to see Snape as the secret
hidden, dark hero, but to me he is still slime, even if he is not on
Voldy's side. For all he dislikes and is hard on Harry, IMO, nothing makes
up for what he did to Hermione. "I don't see any difference." That is
horrible and completely inexcusable from a Professor and I just can't
forgive him for that completely unnecessary hateful remark to a 14 year
girl. He could have let Malfoy get away with his curses without
deliberately stomping on a 14 year girl at a vulnerable moment.

Brooks:
I thoroughly agree on this one. But it may just be from the thoughts that:
> 1) He despises Gryffindors in general
> 2) He despises her for being a friend of Harry.
>
> His statement reminds me of the line about the teachers who would tear
down their students any way they could, in _The Wall_ by Pink Floyd.

Me again:
I don't care. to chew on an adult is one thing. even to chew on Harry, who
is considered special and therefore theoretically "stronger" than others,
but to chew on a young girl when you are in a position of authority over
her is sick. I really wanted to smack him into his cauldron sideways.


 Brooks:
that in the end the best we can say for Snape is that "The enemy of my
enemy is my friend (for now, any way)".

I agree. If JKR intends for us to "understand" Snape and see him as one
of the [perhaps peripheral] good guys or even as a half way decent person
who does the right thing on occasion, then Snape is going to have to do
some serious apologizing and explaining for his behavior.

Vicki