Re:_Where_Snape_belongs_on_the_family_tree

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 79279

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, An'nai Jiriki <xmezumiiru at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Besides, it was only Black who said that as
> propoganda, and Black was laughing at the time.

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> 
>> 
> I also use the fact that Snape was picked on and
> teased.  If he was that good at Dark Arts walking into
> Hogwarts, why would anyone want to pick on him?
> 
>> 


me:

Oh I don't know, let's ask someone, shall we?

"...(Snape was) just a greasy little oddball who was up to his eyes 
in the dark arts and James -- whatever else he may have appeared to 
you, Harry -- always hated the Dark Arts"
Sirius the man himself, pg. 670, Us ed.

I can't think of a better reason to pick on someone, can you? You 
know, it's sorta like---oh say--burning evil books. That's always a 
fun passtime for the small-minded.

Melpomene, shutting up now. Knowing she's taking this waaay too 
seriously.