[HPforGrownups] I Hate Snape...

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 56386

In a message dated 4/27/03 6:15:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jrpessin at mail.millikin.edu writes:

> Not me.  I think he's a heartless jerk who takes entirely too much
> pleasure in the pain he gives his students.  Why, you may ask, do I show
> such bile against a fictional character?  The intensity of this attitude
> of mine can be traced to a single comment made by Snape. From GoF, US
> Paperback edition, pp. 299-300: 

I hate to say this, but that's why I love Snape.  He *is* a heartless jerk.  
If everyone in the series were a nice, good, wholesome guy, I would've thrown 
up on my book during the first chapter.  Not everyone in life is nice.  It's 
a hard lesson to learn.
Everyone can be free to hate Snape - in fact, most people *should* hate Snape 
because that's the way their personalities are.  Most of my friends Hate 
Snape because of all the horrible things he's done.  That's just who he is.  
One of my good friends gets like that - he may not be a teacher, but he can 
throw out lines that are Snape like.  Snape is still a good guy (as far as we 
know).  Not every good guy is *good* all the way through.  Not everyone can 
be.
I'm reminded of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (this is not an exact quote):
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: What?
Buffy: Life.
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: The good guys are always stalwart and true.  The bad guys are easily 
distinguished by their pointy black hats.  We always win.  No one ever dies.  
And we all live happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.

Snape could be keeping up a persona.  We don't know for sure until Book Five 
(...or Six....or Seven).  Snape's a damn good Potions Teacher (one who 
doesn't want the DADA job IMHO) and I have had teachers like him.  All I can 
think of in their class is showing them up by getting good grades.  It's like 
that in high school (I should know...I'm there now!)

I sincerely hope that Snape is never fully redeemed.  He is a sadistic slimy 
git - but I worship him.  Everyone is entitled to their own opinion - I 
personally do not like Sirius Black or Hagrid or McGonagall or Dumbledore all 
that much, but they're needed in the series.  As is Snape.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
--Who wonder why everyone thinks the Snape-lovers will flame them for 
expressing their opinions.......

"Let's build a shrine to the iron!"


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