Hermione and Snape

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 37533

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> wrote:
> 
> I think one of Snape's problems is his tendency to project his own 
> mindset on other people.  Take his reaction to the Prank: Snape 
> would never have set someone up for a werewolf encounter unless he 
> actually meant to kill them; so he can't believe Sirius could've 
> done it without meaning to kill *him*.  In Hermione's case, he's 
> convinced that her behavior in class indicates a desire to show him 
> up and make herself look important, because that's why *he* 
would've 
> done it when he was a student.
> 

Maybe I'm being terribly unsubtle here, but my understanding of Snape 
is:
a. That he is naturally* irascible and bad tempered - which means 
that practically anything can irritate him 
b. That he is naturally pro-Slytherin and anti-Gryffindor, and 
therefore likelier to vent his spleen on Gryffindor students
c. That he naturally loathes Harry even more particularly, which 
makes Harry and, by association, any of Harry's friends, irresistibly 
annoying for him.

By "naturally" I mean that these are attributes that he has, that 
have nothing to do with external circumstances. What annoys him in 
Hermione is that she's a know-it-all, but he is equally irritated 
with Neville, because Neville is so inept. You'd think that it would 
be either one or the other, right? But that just proves my point - he 
is simply bad tempered, so that anything and everything grates on 
him, sparking the crossness and nastiness that lie so close to the 
surface.

But then, I've never been a Snape fan. I'm probably constitutionally 
blind to the layers upon layers of complexity that others seem able 
detect in him. That would be my loss, right? <g> 

Naama, wondering whether you can only love Hagrid *or* Snape, but not 
both