[HPforGrownups] Re: snape is a dufus

[Liessa]

No: HPFGUIDX 32733

Jo Ellen wrote:
>Sirius and Lupin seem to think Snape is an idiot in alot of ways as 
>evidenced by Sirius's comment in the shrieking shack " How did an 
>idiot like that become a professor?" 

Them thinking that he is an idiot is not really any way to judge his talent or  intelligence really.  Idiot is one of the less derogatory terms for someone you dont like.  

They may consider him to be an idiot because he didnt break the rules and have fun like they did.  Perhaps he was like Hermione and always had his head in a book and they thought that was idiotic because they could learn all that sort of stuff in class and didn't need to read about it outside.  Maybe he was a bully, same as he is now, and they're down on him for it.  He maybe acted idiotically with his bullying/telling tales, but that doesnt make him braindead.  Maybe they think he's an idiot for being a DE.

If he truly was an idiot he would quite probably have never graduated let alone be still alive and teaching the "delicate art" of potions.  Surely an idiot would have blown himself up by now.  I think his only real problem is, and possibly always has been, that he's a rules-monger and always goes with what he thinks is the "right thing" even if its not always what everyone else thinks is the best idea.

Liessa - who now wonders if he truly was an evil DE or was a double agent all along.  Would kind of explain Dumbledore looking after/trusting him.


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