More emotional baggage for Snape

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41440

Frankie and Amy discussed Snape's baggage by quoting me first:


> 
> Darrin wrote:
> > > Snape has never seemed able to deal with the fact
> > > that James had his 
> > > life in his hands at one point. Perhaps Snape
> > > accurately called 
> > > James' motivations -- essentially deciding the prank
> > > was going too 
> > > far -- but the fact remains, James saved Snape.
> 
> Then Amy Z wrote:
> > Call me slow, but on my most recent reading of PA it
> > finally dawned on me that when Harry says, rightly, "I
> > just saved all our lives," that includes Snape. 
> >   >>snip<<
> > So if Dumbledore tells Snape this, then Snape owes his
> > life not only to that insufferable so-and-so James,
> > but now to Harry himself.
> 

Frankie:
 
> I don't think Dumbledore would have told Snape anything much
> afterwards as the truth revolves around assisting two convicted 
felons
> (Sirius and Buckbeak) and would open the way for blackmail. 
> 
> Poor guy. Snape is repeatedly out-done by people he considers 
beneath
> him. Don't forget that Hermione solved his potions riddle guarding 
the
> stone when she was only 11 (SS). Can you image the teasing he must
> have gotten from the rest of the staff? McGonagall didn't invent
> chess, but Snape wrote that logic puzzle.
> 
> 


God, I would hope Dumbledore didn't tell Snape. If Snape got any more 
in debt to people he hated, he might pour the Global Thermonuclear 
Potion into the pumpkin juice supply and be done with it.

Maybe one of the reasons he hates Hermione so is because she 
distracted Quirrell, keeping Snape from being the one to save the day 
and discharge this stupid life debt once and for all.

Of course, Hermione beat his puzzle, and remember, it took her about 
three seconds to figure it out. Then Hermione beat Draco for the top 
marks. Then it was her Time-Turner that started the whole life debt 
thing to Harry. 

Boy, Snape must just despise her. Of course, because he can't keep a 
lid on it, he's a completely unprofessional teacher. Remember, it's 
SNAPE who is the adult, allegedly, and the one who should be better 
equipped to lock down conflicts on interest.

Darrin
-- Yeah, I keep harping on it, but damn it, Snape is really immmature.