Snape's love/school days
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koinonia02 at yahoo.com
Wed May 9 03:19:41 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 18418
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., devika261 at a... wrote:
> I have been intrigued by the reports of Snape as a student.
Turning
> up at Hogwarts knowing more curses/hexes/dark arts than any 6th
year
> students I find particularly interesting. Where did he learn this
> from? Who are his parents? What kind of background does he come
> from?
All questions that serious Snape lovers would love to know. How
would a young kid know so much? Who taught him? The misery of
having to wait to find out....
The Marauders make him out to be a very unpopular character,
> so in this he differs from Draco, who is at least popular with his
> own housemates. This may be the Marauders' POV.
I don't think the Marauders made him out to be unpopular. They were
just enemies so of course they wouldn't have anything nice to say
about Snape. I don't recall anywhere in the books where it is stated
that Snape wasn't popular.
I tend to think of
> him as similar, and much less pleasant as the Hermione we first
> encounter - the rigid adherence to rules, a know-it-all etc. I
get
> the feeling that he tried very hard to be teachers' pet, but that
> even the majority of the teachers found him repellent.
I just don't see this at all. Why would the teachers be repelled by
him? He seems intelligent and I would assume he was a hard working
student.
I am just not one of those who think Snape was just some pathetic kid
at school who was disliked by all. Then again, I have been wrong
before!
Koinonia
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