[HPforGrownups] Looks aren't everything! (was:Re: Sirius / Severus)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 86573



Hi,

Friday, December 05, 2003, 9:24:34 AM, jwcpgh wrote:

> How many 11 year olds do you know whom you would describe as either 
> handsome or cool?  :-)  These are young kids at this point.

Well, my daughter is eleven right now, and I volunteer in
her classroom quite a bit.

While *we* (the  parental units, or older generation) might not
consider any of them handsome and cool, they certainly have their
own rules and ideas about who is cool and popular, and who is not.

And this starts earlier than age eleven!

In many schools, the rudest kids who are in trouble a lot,
are unfortunately seen as the cool rebels.

Getting good grades gets you somewhere with the teachers and
parents, but not necessarily with your classmates. In fact,
it could cost you popularity points.

So, I could easily see Sirius becoming popular for his
arrogance and bullying, helped by good looks.

It's a common thing for the popular crowd to pick on one or
two unpopular kids, and once this pattern is locked in, it
seems very hard to overcome.

One little thing could have caused Snape to stand out and
be picked as the one, and things developed from there?

Do we know if Snape had any close friends to help offset the
hard time he was having with Sirius and James?

I'm not surprised Snape joined a group of Slytherins. Maybe
he needed the protection.
Was he the leader of said group?

Of course, there is the matter of the sorting hat putting
him in Slytherin, but I'm seriously questioning its wisdom
by now, anyhow ;)

I do wish we'd see some variation in the Slytherin kids.
Otherwise, being put into that house instantly marks you as
no good in the eyes of many.

And no, I'm not a Snape fan. Sirius was never one of my
favorite characters, either.

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