Snape the misanthrope (LOLLIPOPS addendum)

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 28850

Ah yes, one more thing I forgot to put into my biography.  Have you noticed how contemptuous and vicious Snape is towards anything linked to Love and even Liking?  The man is allergic to relationships!

He sneers at Harry's lie about carrying around stuff from Hogsmeade from Ron ("how touching" and "treasured gift from Mr Weasley"... biting!).  He ridicules the trust James put in Sirius ("too arrogant to think he might have been mistaken in Sirius").

Listen to the malice as he reads out Rita's article about Hermione and separates the Trio so they can get their minds off their "tangled love lives"!  Observe the venom with which he blasts apart those rosebushes to separate snogging couples at the Yule Ball and takes points off their houses!  Look at how he dresses in funereal black and neglects his personal appearance!  How quick he is to suspect anyone and everyone of ill deeds!  How he goes out of his way to frighten and alienate students!    

Though Dumbledore respects and trusts him enough to make him head of a house, he doesn't seem to socialise with his colleagues either - he doesn't go for a drink at the Three Broomsticks with them, or hang around for jolly Christmas celebrations (and does anyone really think that he goes home and snuggles up with his partner, or joins his parents and Aunty Flo for pudding and turkey??).  He respects Dumbledore, but even so he is hardly warm to him.  About the only person we ever see him being nice to is Draco, and even this could well be a scheme to keep Lucius from realising that he is a spy.

This is one grudge-bearing, hostile, anti-social wizard.  He resents friendship and love in others, he is deeply mistrustful of people, he has no relationships of any sort, and he is obsessed with revenge on those who have wronged him.  This, to me, is evidence that whatever terrible things have happened to make him so bitter and nasty are **interpersonal** in nature.  Being rejected or betrayed or humiliated in love sounds a pretty good bet to me, and with the extra evidence I recounted before, I still say it all points to being in unrequited love with Lily...

Tabouli (who is still overboard, but slowly swimming back to HMAS LOLLIPOPS)

P.S. What *do* people think Snape does for Christmas?


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