Snape? A father figure? No, but still not bad.

[pippin_999]

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> > Carole wrote:
> > 
> > "... how can you possible suggest that he's been "a true 
father 
> > figure" He's not showing Harry how to love or be loved."  
> > 

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>>>Yes I will concede that Harry has learned valuable things 
from Snape, 
but how to treat a son is certainly NOT one of them. And I realize 
you agree with that, but the point of my post was to illustrate 
where Snape is NOT fatherly...not to necessarily illustrate that he 
was not important or valuable.<<<

Even a loving  father may not always seem so in a child's 
perception. IMO,Snape embodies the rule-enforcing, protective 
aspects of fatherhood, which may seem unreasonable,harsh 
and demanding even when they are well-meant. To the child, the 
loving father and the demanding father seem to be two different 
people, one benign and the other not, and so they are 
represented in fantasy. 


I disagree that Snape is "trying to get Harry expelled." Has he 
ever seriously tried to persuade McGonagall or Dumbledore to 
do it? They are the only ones who have that power. The most 
he's done is threaten Harry and complain of Dumbledore's 
lenience to Fudge (and Dumbledore is quite unlikely to take any 
advice from *him* about running the school.)

Pippin