Neville/Snape Question

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 38144

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Porphyria <porphyria at m...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Forgive me if I'm misreading you here, but if you think that by 
> > "focusing on one of his victims" somehow lays the blame on 
Harry, 
> > Hermione, or Neville, then this is simply not the case. 
> 
> No no no. That's not what I meant. I should have been more 
explicit. 
> What I meant was, that by focusing on his ill-treating one 
student, 
> people manage to come up with quite reasonable excuses for him. He 
> ill-treats Harry because of his unrequited love for his mother and 
> his jealousy of his father. Which makes him sound quite human and 
> even tragic. He ill-treats Neville because he feels guilty about 
> having failed to save his parents (?!). He ill-treats Hermione 
> because ... umm ok, I don't remember the ingenious explanations 
for 
> that one, but they were there, and made him sound quite human as 
> well. See? It's a clever technique, breaking the whole picture 
into 
> little pieces and then explaining each piece separately. But the 
> point about Snape is that he is *generally* nasty. 

The two are not mutually exclusive, though.  A person can be 
generally nasty and still have individual reasons for disliking 
various people.  This particular thread began with a question about 
Snape and Neville, so people are concentrating on that, but there 
have been plenty of threads about why he's generally nasty.  If you 
want to start up a new discussion on the subject, we Snapefans will 
be happy to oblige, though I can't guarantee we'll reach a 
consensus. :-)

> Naama
> wondering what the latin is for "tickling sleeping Snape fans" 
(and 
> how dangerous is it exactly) <g>

Silly child.  Snapefans never sleep!  CONSTANT VIGILANCE! Bwa-ha-ha-
ha-ha!!!!

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com