[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as teacher

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 17321

--- lea.macleod at gmx.net wrote:
> I just love how everytime someone mentiones Snape on this board,
> you can rely on a handful of certain people immediately to come up 
> with either a wholehearted defence or a wholehearted condamnation!
> 
> Heres another condamnation by Magda:

Good Lord, you don't think that was a condemnation, do you?!?!  Far
from it.  Snape is my favourite character (after Dumbledore).  He has
so much depth and potential for growth.

I think you are confusing "child-like" with "childish" with the
latter's overtones of petulance and immaturity.  Snape is not
childish but he is child-like as I listed in my points and won't
repeat here.

But I did come up with another example (just as I hit the send
button; always the way): in PoA when Snape and Fudge return to the
hospital wing after discovering that Sirius has gone.  Snape is in a
rage and knows (just KNOWS) who's at the bottom of the disappearance:
"OUT WITH IT POTTER! WHAT DID YOU DO?"  He knows that Harry had
something to do with it.

Contrast this with Fudge who reacts like an adult: how could he? 
he's been here in bed?  Not logical that Harry could have had
anything to do with it.

But Snape knows better.  It's the direct-line logic of a child and
it's a wonderful scene.




> But Magdas comment seems to assume generally that Snape is at
> heart an *evil* person. 

No, I don't.  He's still working out the whole good/evil thing.  But
by the end of GoF he is starting to grow up.

 
>  Id even go as far as saying the only person we can be *sure*
> about not to go over to the dark side (apart from Harry, maybe) is 
> Snape.

And Hagrid.

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