Re: Where Snape belongs on the family tree

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 79161

> The Sergeant Majorette says
> 
> This also gives Snape a better reason for bullying Neville than sheer 
> nastiness. He wants Neville to be too intimidated to ever mention 
> this connection to Snape, or feel close enough to him to sympathize 
> or feel sorry for him.
> 
> Perfect indeed, giving Snape relatives and feelings! Now all that's 
> needed is to tie James into this somehow, like maybe James knows, or 
> even is related to, the elder Snape; maybe he tried to be nice to 
> Snape when they were younger and ran into such hostility that he 
> thought "Forget you! Suffer by yourself!"
> 
> --JDR

Great point! I can just picture it; Snape sitting on his mother's bedside and doing 
whatever he can to care for her, then suddenly -- ah! -- the Longbottom boy! Snape, 
of course, doesn't realise that Neville wouldn't want anyone to know that his parents 
are at St Mungo's and why, so it never enters his mind that Neville has his own reason 
not to run and tell. Heaven forbid anyone should find out something *personal* about 
Snape, right? Stop Neville with every available mean.

Nice touch with James, too, except now that fallen hero is even nastier in my book. 
But it does wonders for my inclination to draw Snape-Harry comparisons -- they both 
have to break with their fathers. Harry asks himself if he's an arrogant prick for 
envying Prefect!Ron in the same book where he finds out that his own father may well 
have *been* an arrogant prick -- while Snape probably had some inner conflicts and 
was torn between, on the one hand, wanting to fight back against his father, and on 
the other desiring some fatherly love. So it took longer for him to realise he did not 
want to follow the violence path of his father's.

evangelina, who, if ever she ran into Snape, would probably just lose it and give him a 
hug. (which would, of course, result in him forbidding her to ever come near him 
again)