[HPforGrownups] Father figures, Snape, Dumbledore and Hogwarts

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 14831

Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> 
> Magda Grantwich wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Oooooh. Wow. Mmmmm. Yes. Very, very good observation. It's true. Outer
> darkness, ultimate fate to wreak upon Harry = expulsion. And Sirius says
> Snape was always trying to get the Marauders expelled, too. So was
> Hogwarts the home that Snape didn't have where he came from? 

I suspect that's all too likely.  Poor Severus!

> Have all
> his actions been somewhat "protective" of Hogwarts, too--even the bad
> ones? Was he trying to get disrespectful troublemakers out of Hogwarts
> where they didn't belong, instead of it being a personal dislike? Was he
> involved with the Death Eaters for a similar reason?

Or because they were also a place where he could "belong" once he
(oh horrors!) =graduated= from Hogwarts?  Because you can't stay
in school indefinitely, you know . . . unless you become a
professor.  And 20 or 21 would be just too young an age for that.

Which suddenly makes me think that if Snape =doesn't= die
gloriously, the only really fitting reward for him will be to
succeed Dumbledore as Headmaster of Hogwarts (however much I've
always envisioned Professor McGonagall in that post).  And
perhaps Dumbledore knows that.

Either that or -- here's a thought -- he could take over from
Karkaroff as Headmaster of =Durmstrang= and give that place a
thorough cleaning out!


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>