[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape the poet (was: logic puzzles...)

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 2530



Blaise wrote:

> I've always wondered about Snape's poetic side.  I can't help
> thinking of his very first entry, where he talks about brewing fame
> and glory and stoppering death.  Lovely lyrical stuff!
>
> Snape does have a way with words, which he uses more often than not
> as weapons and as tools for manipulating people.  But perhaps he's a
> frustrated poet too?

This is intriguing, a new way of looking at Snape.  Maybe . . . Snape has
always seemed to me to be a character who is terribly frustrated.  And we're
not quite what it is that he's frustrated about.  What is it about Harry
that gets his knickers in such a twist?  Perhaps he does want the DADA job,
perhaps not-- as several have pointed out, it's just a rumor.

But it makes me wonder--if life had turned out exactly the way Snape had
wanted it to, what kind of life would he have?  If he wasn't so frustrated,
what would make him happy?  Maybe he'd rather be a research chemist, with no
teaching duties (no dunderheads to deal with), writing poetry on the side?
Do you understand what I mean?  Does he want a different job?  A different
childhood?  A large cafe latte?

What would Snape see in the Mirror of Erised?

Peg

> -Blaise, who's been thinking too much about Snape lately.

That's all right, Blaise--we all have.

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