[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape the sneak/Slytherins/rule breaking(was: Snape/Luc

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In a message dated 13/03/02 16:05:56 GMT Standard Time, rusalka at ix.netcom.com 
writes:


> > Back on the subject of Slytherin, one of the characteristics
> favoured by 
> > Slytherin himself (according to Dumbledore) was a certain lack of
> respect for 
> > rules. Not a characterisic of Snape, apparently (other than going
> out of 
> > bounds to follow Lupin).
> 
> I'm sure becoming a Death Eater broke a rule somewhere.  I suspect
> Snape's current obsession with rule-following is a bit of
> overcompensation.
> 

Being a DE? That little matter? I overlooked that moment of weakness :-) !
I was really referring to his behaviour at school. If Sirius is to be 
believed, his fondness for getting  rule breakers into trouble goes back a 
long way. I assume he was a right little creep.
It got me wondering about how much rule breaking we see in the series. I 
think *most* of what we see done by Gryffindors. Obviously, we're seeing it 
from Harry's POV, but it seems to be the trio who keep losing house points 
for rule breaking. And then the twins and James/Sirius are the notorious 
school trouble makers of their days.
We see lots of nasty behaviour from the Slytherins, but less in the way of 
actul rule-breaking. I can recall one case of Draco using magic in the 
corridors, no, that's two, isn't it? And then the time he gets punished for 
being out of bounds when he sneaks on them about Norbert ( which parallels 
Snape's going out of bounds to follow Lupin). I guess they're too sneaky to 
keep making trouble in such an obvious way.

Another thing intrigues me about Slytherins. As you so poetically pointed 
out, Snape 'hangs out in a dungeon that a nicer chap would wither in / it 
doesn't bother him at all because he is a Slytherin'.
The Slytherin common room is a long, low underground room with rough stone 
walls.
Why? Surely these self-seeking, ambitious types would relish a bit of 
comfort, think it was their due, even. I know it suits Snape's gothic image 
(and I still want to install an organ down there for him!), but are we to 
believe that Malfoy Manor is quite so spartan? I suppose someone's going to 
tell me it's supposed to be character building.

Eloise, who'd like to see what Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen would do with the 
Slytherin common room ( he's a rather flamboyant British TV interior 
designer, with more than a passing resemblance to the film Snape, not least 
in dress sense).



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