Snape & Hello

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 14097

Hello, I am a newcomer and have spent my first week just lurking and
reading.  I'm afraid I'm not as devoted a Potterphile as many of you
appear to be but FWIW, this is what I think about Snape:

I too like Snape - the character.  I think he's a wonderful creation.

What strikes me most about Snape is how childlike he is.  He hates
Harry like another child would: wholly, completely and with no
attempt to hide it.  I don't think it has anything to do with having
a crush on Harry's mother: that's too mature an emotion for him, even
in the adolescent-crush sense.  

I think Sarah is bang on:

> I personally like to think Snape has a special 
> relationship with Dumbledore (not a slash) and he feels threatened
> by Harry's closeness to the Headmaster. 

A nasty little boy who spent his time spying on James Potter and gang
to see if they were breaking rules is a little boy who wants adult
approval and has a very warped idea of how to get it.  (Might be why
he signed up with Voldemort in the first place.) Dumbledore, to his
credit, can see this and gives him the approval he still craves. 
Someone else wrote that Snape never DOES anything to harm Harry; I
think he knows that Dumbledore would never forgive that.  And notice
that Harry never fails Potions?  Harry thinks Dumbledore won't let
Snape fail him but that's just Harry's opinion.

Based on what we've read so far, I think a transformation would be
both Harry and Snape growing up.  Harry is child enough to feel that
the good guys are people that he likes.  Despite Dumbledore's
assurances, he does not trust Snape at all.  I don't think it's
illogical to assume that Harry's lack of trust will result in near
catastrophe because he will not be able to trust Snape in a crucial
situation.  He will then realize that his own biases have almost
caused a crisis and will adjust accordingly.  Snape meanwhile will
realize you can't be a jerk forever and expect people to trust you.

A maturation for both.



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