[HPforGrownups] Snape the misanthrope (LOLLIPOPS addendum)

Tue Nov 6 16:17:40 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 28861

  Tabouli <tabouli at unite.com.au> wrote: 
<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!).

Poor Severus, you really, really don't like him, do you? So, I'd like to raise a trembling hand in his defence (can also use it to catch the tomatoes you'll throw at me).

Frankly, I think it's overinterpreting Snape's comment a bit, if you take them as proof for a "relationship allergy". Snape simply has an infallible intuition for peoples' weak points and is immature/cruel/insecure enough to use it for hurting them (it might serve the opposite purpose, to carefully avoid hurting them, but then this is Snape). He undoubtedly has seen through Harry's very lame lie about Ron having brought him the sweets, and now he just wants to torture him, thoroughly.

<He ridicules the trust James put in <Sirius ("too arrogant to <think he might have been mistaken in <Sirius").

Yes, but to him, as to *everybody* else, Sirius is the monstrous traitor.

<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"!  

Same as above: He wouldn't need the intuition he has to know instantly, just how very embarrassing this article must be for Harry and Hermione. I don't defend reading it to the whole class, above all with the Slytherins present, but IMHO, it doesn't indicate that he hates relationships.

<Observe the venom with which he blasts apart those rosebushes <to separate snogging couples at the Yule Ball and takes points <off their houses!  

Considering how much Karkaroff is probably unnerving him and adding this to his own fears for himself (which he certainly has), I think the man has to take it out on somebody (Immaturity/insecurity/cruelty) blasting apart rosebushes when in reality he probably would prefer to beat up Karkaroff seems quite harmless to me.

<Look at how he dresses in funereal black and neglects his <personal appearance!  

Tsk, tsk, tsk, now don't get personal! ;)

<How quick he is to suspect anyone and everyone of ill deeds!  <How he goes out of his way to frighten and alienate students! 

Insecurity? Oderint dum metuant (May they hate me, as long as they fear me)?   

<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, 

That seems to be a "hen or egg"-problem: Maybe his colleagues are not too friendly with him either and wouldn't like to socialize with him in the first place. I don't know how open-minded they are about former Death Eaters.

<snip>
<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)

Would serve you right if Snape came to rescue you! ;)

<P.S. What *do* people think Snape does for Christmas?
Torture Turkeys? Turn Santa Claus's costume black? Put fifty silver sickles into one single Christmas Pudding (to get 50% from the Dr. Grangers afterwards)?  

Susanna/pigwidgeon37 (who ADORES Snape, maybe because she's a little too good at making that kind of comments herself??)
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