Father figures, Snape, Dumbledore and Hogwarts

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 14815

> 1) What about the father-son relationships in HP/ 
> And Snape is the negative aspect. He's the one who doesn't 
> understand, who sets curfews, who won't let you explain,
> the one you just *hate* and can't wait to move out of his house.
> I don't know whether this is deliberate but Snape's psyche, when 
> intrepret broadly, does resemble a hot-tempered and interventionist
> father: He thinks he always knows best; he wants to dictate what 
> Harry should do every single minute; he does not consider Harry 
> capable of deciding what's best for himself and uses punishment to 
> deter him; he does not suffer fool gladly (although I think this is
> just his character in general.)

I agree with this; as Quirrell says to Harry at the end of PS/SS "He
never wanted you dead."  

Snape's total reliance on Dumbledore for approval comes out very
forcibly at the end of PoA when Dumbledore sends him out of the room
and before he goes he urgently asks if Dumbledore remembers what
happened in the past and D. reassures him that he does.  It's a
surprisingly touching moment.

Has anyone noticed how fanatical Snape is in his reverence for
Hogwarts?  Rules are everything. And he can come up with no worse
punishment for Harry - who he loathes - than expulsion from Hogwarts:
a fate he seems to regard as the equivalent of exile.

And how about another father figure relationship: Snape and Draco? 
What do they talk about when they're alone and Draco has finished
whining about Harry?

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