Sirius and Snape frozen in time (WasSirius' Prank & Lupin )

[gypaetus16]

No: HPFGUIDX 34419

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bookraptor11" <DMCourt11 at c...> wrote:
 
> Spending the majority of his adult life at the same place he spent 
> his adolescence perhaps would cause him to keep more to his old 
> patterns of behavior. I do agree that it's not as good an excuse as 
> being in Azkaban though, and Snape with a little effort had more of 
> an opportunity to mature.
> 
> Donna


Snape does not have friends to discuss his problems, he does not have 
social contacts to overcome the happenings of his Hogwarts time and 
also of the time as a Death Eater in discussions. IMHO it is only 
possible to digest and to analyse problems when you speak about them 
with other people who are interested in these problems and if this is 
not the case then you can only discuss your thoughts with yourself 
which causes rather strange discussions and which does not always 
provide solutions (in particular when you have to do these "yourself-
discussions" for ages).
I cannot imagine that a highly social species as Homo sapiens (even if 
this species consists of a large number of magical genes) is able to 
grow up and to mature alone.
Obviously Snape was and is not speaking about his problems even with 
Dumbledore, who, I am sure, could help him a lot to change and develop 
his patterns of behaviour.

Gabriele