Outsider!Snape (NOT!) (Re: Bully!Sirius, Snape's Grudge)

[prefectmarcus]

No: HPFGUIDX 43385

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Irene Mikhlin" <irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:
> > Poor Severus just can't catch a break, can he, and JKR plays that
> > fact for pathos as well as for laughs, I'd say.  I do think that 
we
> > are meant to read a certain degree of pathos into this portrayal 
of
> > Snape as the constant voyeur: a hostile outsider, yes, but always 
an
> > outsider trying to look in.  


I don't seen Snape as an outsider at all.  He certainly didn't get 
along with the marauders, but nobody in this life ever got along with 
everybody, even Will Rogers.  But that was then, this is now.

Snape trust Dumbledore and Dumbledore trusts Snape.  He trusts him 
enough to include him in the secret of Sirius's dog form.  Even 
McGonagall can't claim that one!

This is the core reason that I reject the theories of those who say 
that Snape will be tempted to betray Dumbledore.  He loused up his 
life once before.  He now has his self-respect back.  He is honored 
and respected now (you can hate someone and still respect them.)  

Snape is now definitely part of Dumbledore's inner circle.  No way is 
he going to louse that up.  

> But I digress. The most heart-breaking part of all this plot line,
> for me, is Dumbledore's behaviour. He plays with Snape's
> sanity with as much cruelty as the twins play with Percy, but on a
> bigger scale.
> 
> Irene

How?  Snape just made a wild accusation based primarily upon 
emotion.  It wasn't logical.  (Yes, it was true, but still it was 
illogical.)  Dumbledore was challenging him on it.  If Snape chooses 
to believe Harry and Hermione has something to do with Black's 
escape, then he had better be prepared to explain how.  Otherwise, he 
is just making a fool of himself in front of the Minister of Magic.

Marcus