[HPforGrownups] Re:_Where_Snape_belongs_on_the_family_tree?

[An'nai Jiriki]

No: HPFGUIDX 79297


> Marika's answer:
> 
> I'm all there for discrediting some things that
> Black said :-)  but I 
> don't want to be too unfair either (just a little).
> The quote I had 
> in mind is one from GoF (pp 460 Br. Ed.) " `Snape
> knew more curses 
> when he arrived at school than half the kids in
> seventh year and he 
> was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all
> turned out to be 
> Death Eaters.' Sirius held up his fingers, and began
> ticking off 
> names". He is not laughing here at all, and this is
> one of the few 
> times I really like Black, because he appears stable
> and less 
> hotheaded than normal. The information he gives
> about the 
> Slytherins/DE:s is correct, as far as we know, so I
> can see that what 
> he said about Snape's knowledge might turn out to be
> true too.

I read it as if he was mocking it, even though it was
never stated he was laughing. And then Harry and Ron
laugh about it. If BLack was serious, then they would
not laugh about it, because it is serious.

And for knowing as many Dark Curses, it could not have
been much, as using that much Dark MAgic in Hogwarts
would result in expulsion or worse.

> About your question why anyone would want to pick on
> him, I'd say 
> that it wasn't "anyone", but two of the smartest and
> most popular 
> kids in school. Why would Snape's knowledge stop
> them from bullying 
> him, when they were at least two against one? It's
> also likely that 
> Black himself knew some stuff when he came to
> Hogwarts. 
> 

If everyone picked on the mini-DEs in school, then why
was everyone so afraid of them when they were out of
school? It seemed to me that there were alot of names
that were out, especially in GoF. If people knew (or
guessed) that Snape was in the group that was playing
with the muggles, why panic? He was wimp in school,
and so easy to pick on. (I don't think Snape was
there, but it's a name I could use)

It, in my opinion, was propoganda that was started by
Sirius that Snape was more dangerous than he was, or
we would have seen that in the memory and not seen him
beaten so easily. Sirius beleived his own lies after a
while. Just the same, the native wizards to England
and surround contries were afraid because the wizards
they knew to be DEs were not pushover kids, but
bullies themselves. While it does happen that a weak
person as a child turns out to be powerful as an
adult, the concentration of kids that turn into DEs is
too high for that to happen.

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"You irritate me. Kill me now." ~Javert, Les Miserables

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