[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius and Snape thoughts

[JamiDeise at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20897

In a message dated 6/15/2001 8:29:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mgrantwich at yahoo.com writes:

<< Actually, I like Rebecca's suggestion that he would suffer in silence
 and Harry would misinterpret and hate him for it.  But only if
 Dumbledore dies in a later book than Book 5 because I don't think
 Snape is mature enough (literally, to me he's an adolescent in an
 adult's body) to fake it that thoroughly. >>

I agree that Snape is pretty immature, but I think that if Dumbledore dies 
(which I believe is inevitable), it'll force Snape to grow up. It occurred to 
me that in three out of the four books published so far, Dumbledore literally 
saves Harry's life -- in PS/SS, by pulling him off of Quirrell, in CoS 
through Fawkes, and in GoF by keeping Barty Jr. from killing Harry. And in 
PoA, Buckbeak and Black would have been toast without Dumbledore. 

Snape is still nursing a lot of schoolboy grudges, but I think that when 
Dumbledore dies, he's going to grow up fast and maybe even team up with Harry 
to overthrow the Dark Lord once and for all.

Jami