[HPforGrownups] The inner Snape (was:Re: Grey laundry - depression) longish

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 76894


  From: jwcpgh 



  --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <<snip>> Most of the Order actively show they are using him, don't like him, and are not his friends, so what would be the attraction, if those were the reasons he decided to betray LV and the DEs?<<snip>>
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  >   Dawn

  Laura:

  Ah, the ever-puzzling Severus<<snip>> 
  Sometimes people 
  who have been deprived of a healthy emotional environment go looking for the love they didn't get, and they become very social.  And sometimes it's the opposite.  Snape has learned not to trust anyone except himself.  
  <<snip>>Dawn's point about SS creating his teacher persona is a very good 
  one.  He may not be liked (I wonder if even Draco really *likes* him) but he's damn well feared.  No one's going to mess with this guy ever again. Of course, no one's going to invite him over for tea, either.   <<snip>>

  I don't agree that most of the people in the Order don't like Snape-I don't see any evidence of this in the text.  The only person who really hated Snape is (apparently) gone.  No one else fights with him.  Even Remus is trying to get along with him.  So here's his chance to break out of his isolation with people who understand and respect the difficulty of what he's doing.  Will he allow them to break through his isolation?  We'll see.

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  Perhaps it might have been better put that this is what Snape perceives as people's reaction to him.  I see Lupin's banter as a (usually) good natured attempt to be friendly towards Snape, drawing on shared memories and the like, but Snape has more to fear and dislike about those days than Lupin, so sees it as a taunt.  None of the others are particularly friendly, but Snape isn't either - again, he has what he sees as good reason to dislike Aurors and Unspeakables. 

  He also probably understands better than most that any of them could become *acceptable casualties*, sacrificed for the greater good, so chooses not to become close (something he learned under LV?).  He probably suspects that he'd be the first they'd throw to the Fates, given the choice.

  Dawn


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