Thanking Snape? (WAS Where was Snape?)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 36595

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:

> He didn't need saving, but ideally the trio *should* apologise for
knocking 
> him out IMHO. It's one of the things that I'm constantly battling to
get my 
> kids to understand. 'But I didn't *mean* to'.....No, but civilised
people 
> apologise for injury caused by accident. If they don't, it implies
that they 
> don't care what effect their actions have on others and morally, it
might 
> just as well have been intentional. No matter that Snape wouldn't
apologise 
> to them in similar circumstances; one person's bad manners don't
justify 
> another's, in my book.

See, I have a different view of apologies, possibly influenced by the
fact that I don't have children.  I don't like them. (Apologies, I
mean.  Well, okay, and children, too.)  I tend to just get more
annoyed when someone apologizes to me, because I'm convinced that
they're sincerely sorry for what they've done (as opposed to being
sincerely sorry for getting caught), and because in my experience
people have a tendency to translate "apology accepted" as "so now you
can do it again."  If someone has wronged me, I'd prefer they keep my
mouth shut about it and refrain from wronging me ever again.  This is
probably very cynical and anti-social of me, but what other character
do we know who's cynical and anti-social, hmmm?

I suspect that it will be chilly day in hell before Snape apologizes
to anyone, and I doubt he would react favorably to an apology from
Harry, or from Sirius, or from anyone else he thinks has wronged him.


> Marina (on another of my posts)
> 
> > A send-up of stereotypcial flamboyant gay behavior.  It seems to
be
> > accepted wisdom in the popular US media that gay men are
fascinated by
> > interior decorating and say "marvelous" a lot. So when you
compared
> > Snape to a flamboyant interior designer, the image popped up. 
Snape
> > is certainly flamboyant, and since I refuse to 'ship him I'm in no
> > position to make statements about which way he swings, but I
refuse to
> > believe that the word "marvelous" would ever pass his greasy lips.
> > 
> 
> Eloise
> 
> Should have stuck this in with my last post. Just for the record,
not that it 
> should matter, I should point out that the interior designer I
mentioned does 
> have a wife and daughter. He's 'camp' in a theatrical way, but not
as far as 
> I'm aware, in any other. I was in no way implying anything about
Snape's 
> sexuality!

Oh, I know.  It was my own twisted thought processes that led to the
image, not anything you said.

> Eloise...wondering what you do with a plastic flamingo. Do you stick
them in 
> garden ponds, the way people here have model herons, to deter the
real thing 
> from eating your fish?

Well, you certainly could stick it in a garden pond, but I believe the
conventional thing to do is to stick them on your lush, emerald-green
lawn in front of your huge, pastel-colored house which, ideally, is
located in a sunny coastal state like Florida, so that there can be
some palm trees growing on the lawn.  Its presence is supposed to be
indicative of supreme tackiness and poor taste.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com