[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape//also COBOL

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 1194

At 07:19 AM 9/8/00 +0000, Rita Winston wrote:
>Snape hates Harry despite having to keep him alive ... I mentioned that 
>for an adult to
>hate a child out of envy is NOT a sign of good mental health, but does
>happen.

I agree with all the above.

>I keep wanting to apply that to Snape, altho' it
>doesn't totally match: being a professor at Hogwarts is not a career
>failure, but a prestigeous job that I believe is well paid.

It's been my observation that there are many teachers who regard
teaching as a dead end career-wise, no matter what prestige might
be involved.  My high-school geology teacher made no bones about
her hatred of teaching -- she so clearly wanted to be a field
researcher.  Snape probably would much rather be in the lab working
his way toward being the Jonas Salk of Wizard Potions than being
stuck at Hogwarts "teaching dunderheads".

>Someone on HAS suggested, in that case, maybe Lucius started at
>Hogwarts when Snape was like a seventh-year...

My impression has been that Lucius is older than Snape.  Of course,
that may be because I keep seeing the silver screen actor Henry Daniel
("Garbage", Hinkle's right-hand man in Charlie Chaplin's _The Great
Dictator_) as Lucius Malfoy.



                                                 -- Dave