Snape is an HONEST nasty person (was Lupin Is Not An Airhead! (WAS Remus: Once more with feeling, )

[marinafrants]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:
> *growls*
> Point of fact. Snape is not a liar. Snape is an obstructionist, 
and Snape
> firmly believes in his own interpretations of events. We may 
disagree with
> said personal interpretations, but they *are* honestly-held 
different
> interpretations. Snape has his faults, but lying is not one of 
them. I'm
> sitting here trying to think of one instance where he has lied, 
and I'm
> pulling a blank (except possibly about believing the kids were 
Confunded,
> which I don't think he did).
> 

I think that's very true, and I also think it's deliberate on JKR's 
part. (Yeah, there's that tricky authorial intent issue again.)  
Take the whole Shrieking Shack sequence in PoA and its aftermath.  
This is Snape at his absolute worst, the closest he comes in the 
books to being an out-and-out villain.  Yet JKR still arranges the 
whole lengthy and extremely complex series of events in such a way 
that Snape misses out on all the events that actually demonstrate 
Wormtail's guilt and Sirius' innocence.  He's either absent or 
unconscious for all the really important parts.  And I think it's 
because if he *had* seen Wormtail running around alive, he would not 
have lied about it to Fudge, no matter how much he wants Sirius to 
be Dementor food.

Marina
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