[HPforGrownups]The ~*BEST*~ of Severus Snape (was: The Worst of Severus Snape)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32711

At 7:08 PM -0600 1/3/02, hazel-rah7 at juno.com wrote:
>
>  why not focus on the positive -- the BEST of
>Severus Snape?  At least he does *some* things right.

Easy - totally blowing Lockhart away in the duelling sequence from 
CoS.  Anyone who thinks Snape is bumbling or incompetent needs to 
re-read that scene.


A few IMHO musings on Snape's character:

I think Snape desperately wants to be famous, and hates people who, 
in his eyes, flaunt their fame.  He is inordinately thrilled about 
the Oder of Merlin and the publicity he will get for capturing 
Sirius, and totally loses his marbles (temporarily, thankfully) when 
Sirius escapes.  His beef with Harry in that first potions lesson 
boils down to "Fame isn't everything."  But the person who gets his 
goat most in all the series so far is Lockhart, who is famous _and_ 
incompetent - getting Snape's goat twice over.

Moreover, other people being famous bothers him worse if it's 
undeserved, in his eyes.  Whether Harry defeated Voldemort solely 
through what Lily did for him, or through a combination of that and 
something inherent in him, isn't clear, but either way, it seems to 
gall Snape that Harry-now is praised and famed for what Harry-then 
went through - an experience that Harry-now can only dimly remember. 
Lockhart is so blatant an incompetent that Snape must know his books 
are fabrications, so he wasn't even present for what he's made 
himself famous for.  Both of these chafe Snape much more than, say, 
Dumbedore, who is justly famous for defeating Grindlewald.

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