Snape the poet (was: logic puzzles...)

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 2536

Poor Snape is the poster child for the Frustrated isn't he? I really 
felt Madame Pomphrey should have given him a Valium in PoA during his 
big yelling scene in the hospital wing.

Perhaps teaching isn't his desired vocation. I have speculated that 
Snape is only at Hogwarts because he is under Dumbledore's protection 
since he betrayed V by becoming a spy for Dumbledore. 

Maybe if Snape were to look in the Mirror of Erised he would be on a 
beach somewhere, sipping a cool drink and working on his tan (and 
finally wash his greasy hair!)

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> >>>
> 
> No, that's my sister.  I'm La Belle Dame Sans a Reasonably 
Cooperative
> Attitude.