Metathinking and Why Snape <snip!>

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No: HPFGUIDX 45145

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
<snip>
> doesn't support - for example, if you can manage to explain why 
> kindly old Dumbledore is practically *laughing* at one of his 
senior 
> teachers having a near nervous breakdown in Chapter 22 of PoA, 
> *without* recourse to 'Dumbledore is secretly an evil sadist', then 
> you can argue that I'm twisting the text and everything is exactly 
> as it seems. But until then, I'll stick with Snape is acting, which 
> means there must be a reason for him to be acting, which in turn 
> means...

Errr...because it's funny?  A thirty-something year
old man in the midst of a temper tantrum that would
give a three year old pause?  How can you not laugh?
(I don't consider myself an evil sadist (; but I 
suppose I might be...).  On the other hand, I have
never considered it a nervous breakdown, merely a
huge tantrum because he was "foiled again!".

Karie