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

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 32842

Amanda wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:58:58 -0000 "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at home.com>
>writes:
>> But what is the very worst, single most terrible thing Snape has
>> done and why?
>
>~*Now now, I think that's just a tad bit negative.  Let's be fair.
>::innocent smile::  You can all come up with your "I Hate Snape" slogans
>and bash him until the cows come home, but I think we should reserve
>judgement until we know for sure that he's not Satan incarnate.  Okay, so
>that might take most of the fun out of discussing everyone's _favorite_
>character, but anyway.... why not focus on the positive -- the BEST of
>Severus Snape?

Using his powers of sarcasm for good. <g>

In other words, any opportunity he gets to undercut Gilderoy Lockhart is 
okay with me. The duelling club scene, where he runs rings around the 
person he's supposedly "assisting". And the scene where he hoists him 
with his own petard by suggesting that - as a self-confessed hero type - 
he's clearly the obvious person to send to open up the Chamber of 
Secrets and sort out the monster once and for all.

Not perhaps "the best of Severus Snape" in the sense of showing him 
undertaking actions of unimpeachable motivation, but certainly those 
scenes demonstrate the sort of Snape motivation where you can really get 
behind him and cheer him on all the way...

-- 
Muridae
Who is, incidentally, slightly worried by the thought of Cindy's "Expelliar-mouse" charm...