Some Snape thoughts

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 35741

I know we have discussed Snape so much that he's up there with Princess Diana for being under the microscope (now *there's* a SHIP) - but I really don't recall seeing the confused and contradictory thoughts below mentioned before.

When Harry got cross with his aunt at the beginning of POA, he broke her glass, then blew her up.  Later, in GOF, when Snape cracks his notorious 'I see no difference' remark, (to demonstrate to any vampires present that he is not toothist), Harry imagines all sorts of horrible things happening to Snape - but they don't.

I wonder if Snape was using all his magical powers at that time to resist Harry's anger, and is in fact *deliberately* winding him up, so that, in due course, Harry can do something spectacular, with or without his wand, when made sufficiently angry.

I do not suggest that this explains very much of the mysteries surrounding Snape, but it may be a factor in some of his classroom behaviour, for example, with Neville and Hermione.

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I'm still mulling Pippin's point that the term Death Eater may be linked to a specific practice aimed at prolonging life.  This practice could be addictive.  Could it then be that what Snape did that convinced Dumbledore of his sincerity was to give up the practice?  For Snape to be living every day of his life resisting an awful temptation rings true to me.  It would be nice to link this withdrawal to Snape's sallowness and hair (and half-hearted Karkaroff's teeth), but I think MWPP contradict this as predating his DE days.  More difficult is the question of what Lucius Malfoy and the others are subsisting on in the meantime.  Either Voldemort in his heyday made large quantities of his faux elixir, or they can make it themselves (but for the 'DE' term to work they would be bumping off wizards)...  Oh well, I throw it out FWIW.

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Lastly an amusing thought on Hermione's teeth.  We make great play of Snape's nastiness in saying 'I see no difference' - but Hermione herself buys into it in her remarks about her parents.  Imagine the converstaion in Pomfrey's surgery.

Pomfrey: Have I gone too far? I'm sure they're smaller now than they originally were
Hermione: I see no difference

Not that I pretend to understand all this high falutin stuff about subversive interpretations...

David
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