Snape: motives, relationships with Harry/ Dumbledore/Voldemort. DADA

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> 2) Related to above, I think he is insecure and emotionally 
immature, 
> desperate for approval. I think one of the reasons for his 
childhood 
> obsession with reporting rule breakers is an attempt to gain 
Dumbledore's 
> approval. I rather assume that D knew a lot of what the marauders 
got up to 
> (although not the Animagus bit) and as with Harry, turned a blind 
eye or even 
> gave tacit approval (what was D like at school?). I think he felt 
he never 
> got the recognition he deserved, unlike the marauders, who had 
everything.


The only problem I see with this is that Snape never really tries to 
get approval of any kind -- although he does seem to be excited 
enough about the whole Order of Merlin thing.

Even then, it's Fudge -- who generally is as perceptive as a dead 
mole rat -- who says it seems the loss of the order of Merlin hits 
him harder than he thought.  I think Snape is just excited about 
revenge against Sirius and putting Potter in his place.

Ergo, Snape seems to be completely unconcerned with approval, 
recognition, et al.  I think it more likely that he's just a grumpy, 
mean fellow with an inflated sense of his own superiority.

Joshua Dyal