Snape in love (and Imperio curse)

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 3885

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Jinx wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, we are talking Snape here, and he's just the obsessive type 
to hold
> > grudges for a very long time indeed.  I don't know if he'd be mad 
at Lily,
> > but certainly it'd be one more thing to blame James for.
> 
> Okay, this is a bit of personal history for those of you who have 
not had
> experience with this sort of pit-bull emotional baggage and who 
think Snape is
> a non-realistic extreme mental case. Grudges *can* and do last that 
long


Amanda has a good point.  People, in my experience, are not 
rational.  I have a great aunt and uncle who I never met until, when 
I was in my 20s, I went to a funeral for another great-uncle.  When I 
asked my mother who those people were who had just come up and hugged 
me, she said they were my grandfathers sister and her husband, who 
were never invited to family events or talked about because my 
grandfather had had an altercation with them before I was born and 
had refused to speak to them ever since.  Neither my mother nor my 
grandmother knew (or were willing to tell me, maybe) why my 
grandfather did not speak to his sister.  My grandfather held this 
grudge for at least 30 years!!!!  While my grandfather was not a 
particularly nice man, he was not as nasty as Snape.

-- Joywitch