R.E hermione as mirror of Snape

[fleurmellor]

No: HPFGUIDX 38912

 
Porhyria,
Like the rules and logic argument you made for Hermione and Snape.  Another similarity between them which involves logic would be that she reacted to his potion task that guarded the stone in PS/SS with great enthusiasm, the fact that he set this shows that he is generally quite logical I would think, but like you say, spite sometimes causes him to behave erratically.  I think Hermione has  much  better personal control than him, apart from the slapping Malfoy incident!
 
> >  Porhyria wrote:
> >I like your overall point here that in one
> >case
> > having your life 
> > saved leads to an improvement in friendship
> > while in the other 
> >  case 
> > it leads to a worsening of it. Still there
> > are
> > important 
> > differences 
> > in each case that make this a bit of an
> >apples
> >  and oranges 
> >  comparison. 

I kind of mean this whole idea to illustrate that Hermione has what Snape wanted in his school days to be 'in with the in crowd' eg the marauders. I'm sure plenty of people dont agree with this but I can't help thinking that from Snapes extreme reaction to Harry and apparently all the meddling he did in the
maraders affairs that he would have liked to have been friends with them, and that his death-eater palls were second best. you have pointed out Hermiones 
meddling in Harry and Rons buisness as her seeking friendship, I think 
Snapes nosing into the Marauders buisness was similar.

> >Porhyria wrote:
> >I always interpreted this 
> >  scene as an indication of how loyal Snape
> >really
> >is to 
> >Dumbledore.>snip< what 
> >he 
> >actually says is "Now, now,
> >Malfoy...Professor
> >Dumbledore has 
> >only 
> been suspended by the governors. I daresay
> he'll
> >be back with us 
> >soon 
> >enough." How on earth is that disloyal?
> That's
> >pretty supportive
> >
ok, ok youv'e got me on this one :-), I had forgot the dialoge  after 
the  smirk, I just feel that Snape isn't a loyal person, that he needs Dumbledores protection so will do whateveris necesary to obtain it. However I'm sure a case could be argued that he has hidden depths of great admiration for Dumbledore
 
> Porhyria wrote:
> >I 
> >imagine that Snape might have gotten over
> some
> >of his 
> >intolerance 
> >from his DE days (directed against
> Muggle-borns,
> >for example.
 
I always thought that Snape would have been a DE for mainly reasons of getting Power and prestige and not been overly consumed with hatred for Muggles/muggleborns. I'm sure he probably didn't really care less about bad things happening to them but I cant imagine him hating someone just because of their parentage.

There seems to be several things that hit the top on the 'Snape hate-
o-meter' I would put fame seeking (real or percieved), stupidity,
weakness, know-it-all-ness, people who have wronged him(again real or percieved) and people who have made him look a fool before pure blood issues as 
the things that really get his goat!

Fleur
*:)*