[HPforGrownups] Re: Apology - Sirius again...

[pumpkin322]

No: HPFGUIDX 22648

I believe there are some things about Snape that we don't know yet. Should come out later. Perhaps his motivations will be more understandable then.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Susan Hall 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:57 AM
  Subject: RE: [HPforGrownups] Re: Apology - Sirius again...



  >Or how about Sirius as an adult telling Ron, Hermione, and Harry that
  >Snape was a *slimy, oily, greasy-haired kid*.  That was a nice way
  >for Sirius to talk about *Professor Snape* in front of the kids.  My
  >point is that Sirius does have a cruel streak in him.

  While I subscribe to the theory that it is in general better for responsible
  adults to be reasonably respectful about  children's teachers, and not to go
  round gratuitously dropping into the conversation embarassing incidents
  about said teachers derived from having been at school with them, I do think
  it would have been the height of hypocrisy for Sirius to have taken this
  line about Snape at this particular moment.  After all, the last time the
  two had met, in front of the kids to whom the remark is made, Snape had
  attempted to get Sirius judicially murdered in a way which endangered
  Harry's life and soul.  Furthermore, he is doing it in the context of Harry
  reporting to him about the Snape/Karkaroff conversation.  Now, Sirius knows
  that Karkaroff is an ex DE, and must suspect that Snape has been one too, so
  referring to him as a "slimy kid" is rather restrained, in context.

  Next, speaking of hypocrisy, Snape tells Dumbledore "Sirius showed himself
  capable of pre-meditated murder at the age of sixteen.  He nearly murdered
  me".  Now, unless I've missed something here, Death Eaters did not go round
  simply making impolite remarks about people's mothers.  They killed people.
  For fun.  For what one might call, loosely speaking, racist reasons.  For
  being on the wrong side.  Whatever.  If Snape was a Death Eater before he
  switched sides (and he was) he pretty definitely has not only been capable
  of pre-meditated murder, but has actually done it.  Which, as a matter of
  fact, Sirius hasn't.  It may be a technical difference between the two of
  them, but it is a difference.

  Susan


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