More on Snape & a couple of questions

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In a message dated 4/29/2003 6:09:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, Anne(Anja)" <titaniclady_1912 at hotmail.com> writes:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > What do you guys think? Severus and Minerva - good friends or not.
> > 
> 
> Hmmm ... I think they get along but that's it. From what we know 
> about Snape , he doesn't seem to be interested in being friends with 
> anyone and especially NOT with the Gryffindor Head of House. 
> If Snape called anyone of the Hogwarts staff friend , it would 
> probably have to be Albus Dumbledore , although there is probably 
> more of a father-son relationship between the two of them. It is 
> quite remarkable that Snape obeys to DD's orders almost immediately 
> while he hardly seems to care about anybody else's words (including 
> Fudge's , who is , after all , the Minister of Magic !!!).
> I think it's also possible that there exists some kind of friendship 
> between Hagrid and Snape although I have to admit that there's no 
> evidence in canon for that except the fact that Hagrid 
> seems to defend him to Harry , Ron and Hermione.

Don't forget he let Filch bandage his leg and complained about Fluffy to the man in SS, and the whole staircase discussion in GoF.  Seriously, I think Snape gets along better with the staff (Hagrid, Filch, possibly Pomfrey) than the faculty.  That might be a class issue, because there are hints that Snape isn't from quite a refined background as he usually projects.

His relationship with Minerva is interesting. She'd have been his teacher, she's his superior as Deputy Headmistress, but he still snarks at her about winning the House Cup six years in a row (PS). There could be anything from friendly teasing (because you know Snape is the sort of person who'd tease his friends mercilessly too) to barely muffled contempt. I'd learn toward the friendlier end of the spectrum, since they do wind up working together on all the crises that happen at school, and thus have to have relationship that is at least cordial enough to let them get anything done.

There is certainly nothing in the books between them approaching the frostiness Snape shows Remus, or the outright bugginess that Sirius Black induces.

AnneL