Snape in love (and Imperio curse)

[mmarth at peoplepc.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 3886

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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


Oh I agree people can hold grudges for a very long time.  Even good 
people.  I am just hoping the grudge Snape holds isn't because he 
loved Lily (romantically -Amanda-on going joke).  I do so think Snape 
is a man on a mission - some kind of revenge thing.

Martha