Neville/Snape Question

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 38095

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> wrote:

> I don't think he's doing it just to be mean.  I think Snape has zero
> tolerance for people he considers to be stupid or incompetent,
> particularly when their incompetence presents a danger.  I also 
think
> he has no sympathy for other peoples' human weaknesses, and no
> interest in excuses.  If he knows about Neville's situation, he
> probably thinks Neville should suck it up and deal.
> 
> 
> Marina
> rusalka at i...

Following the principle Elkins once defined as "Cherchez la femme," it 
should be obvious that Snape was in love with Neville's mother, and 
hated Frank Longbottom forever for being the one that got her. Every 
time he looks down and sees her eyes in Frank's face, he says or does 
something very nasty to Neville. That won't work for you? 

1) I do think there's a backhistory between Severus Snape and Frank 
Longbottom. I don't think it's got anything to do with Neville's 
mysterious mother, but I think there could be plenty of reason for 
Snape ex-death-eater to have hated popular auror Longbottom. In the 
past, Longbottom has been accused on this list by Eric Oppen 
(tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek) of being Judge Dredd on acid: a 
phrase I particularily liked. :-) Not likely, but I would not be 
surprised if Longbottom was one of the aurors who didn't try to bring 
people in alive. (He was a Slytherin, damnit, according to me) Factor 
in Rosier and Wilkes, and you've got a good backstory. (In the bloody 
ambush theory, was it Moody or Longbottom who finished off Rosier?) 

2) Snape absolutely despises people who he can't save. Half his 
problems with James Potter seems to stem from Snape's inability to 
keep Potter from dying. I would suspect that Snape is somehow involved 
in the whole Longbottom situation, and came too late to save the day, 
or messed something up to ruin it. Twisted reason for disliking 
Neville, but that's Snape for you.

3) Livian Rome again. Whatever Snape's opinion of Frank Longbottom, I 
am quite sure that he thinks Neville should be ready to avenge his 
parents, and instead the kid is fumbling around, "on purposely" acting 
like an incompetent.

To finish, Mrs. Longbottom was not an auror. Crouch Sr. "an auror and 
his wife." 

NM