[HPforGrownups] Snape's Voldemort memories

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 28753


--- Rachel Fellman <islefrank at yahoo.com> wrote:

>    I'm not sure how much Snape actually thinks about
> those things, at least at the beginning. Snape as we
> see him in the first three books seems to have
> become
> very good at scabbing over his memories of that
> particular time- he'll brood and agonize endlessly
> over his student days, and extend that into all
> sorts
> of paranoid imaginings about Harry, but there's no
> sign that he's thinking at all about the intervening
> time. Thinking only of things that other people have
> done to him allows him to only hate other people,
> and
> consider himself pure. I think that one part of the
> Brain of Severus is doing this for another part's
> own
> good- on some level, he knows that if he allows
> himself to dwell on his time with Voldemort, he'll
> end
> up punishing his own "incompetence" with the same
> severity that he does everybody else's. 

   An interesting suggestion. Snape's odd obsession
with his schoolboy grudges and wrongs is actually a
defense against memories of Voldemorte and his own
acts as a DE? It works.

>    Now, it'll be very interesting to see how Snape
> is
> portrayed in OoP. Now that he's staring directly at
> his past, how will he react? Is this when the
> self-loathing part starts?

  It will indeed. OoP might actually see some major
shifts in the relationship between Snape and Harry.
Now they're fighting on the same side and Snape is
taking horrible risks to do so. Harry is to fair a
person not to count that in his favor.

>    I don't think that Snape really had one
> particular
> reason for either of his side switches. He most
> likely
> went over to evil because he got (and still does
> get)
> a huge kick out of *acting* evil and using his power
> to get back at all of those dumb-jock popular kids.
   <snip>
> And I think that he returned
> to Dumbledore because he realized -like Draco really
> should before I start to seriously hate Draco- that
> there's a heck of a lot more to evil than that.

   I agree with this. With all due respect to the
views of other fans I very much doubt Snape turned to
the Dark Side out of unrequited love - or back when
his love was killed. His malice led him to side with
Voldemorte initially and his inner core of integrity
gave him the strength to turn back.
  I personally doubt Draco has any such core - but I
could be wrong.



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