Snape's love/school days

koinonia02 at yahoo.com 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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