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

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 86675

Marina:
> > My own theory is that Snape, being a loyal Slytherin with a 
> contempt for Muggleborns and a deep interest in the Dark Arts, was 
> everything that the Black family wanted Sirius to be, and thus 
> everything that he hated and violently rejected, especially at the 
> time of the Pensieve flashback (which took place shortly before 
> Sirius ran away from home for good).  

> Laura again:
> 
> Marina, I hate to admit it, being a big fan of Sirius's, but I 
think 
> your observations are extremely insightful.  They would explain 
why 
> Sirius was so active a part of the Snape-baiting that went on.  If 
> James and Snape had a problem, James didn't need Sirius's help to 
> deal with it, really.  But Sirius, if Pensieve II is typical, took 
> great pleasure in encouraging James if not actively doing the 
hexing 
> himself.  

Marina again:

Yes, that Pensieve scene did leave me with the impression that while 
the bulk of the enmity was between Snape and James, Sirius 
definitely had his own stake in it, and it was more than just 
solidarity with James.

Laura:
> You can also reverse the theory and suggest that Snape was jealous 
> and resentful of Sirius, who had everything Snape wanted but 
loathed 
> and rejected it.  

Oh, yes.  Few things are more infuriating than watching somebody 
else reject something that you desperately want for yourself.  And 
the return to 12 Grimmauld Place in OOP would be a replay of that 
for Snape, as well as for Sirius (especially if you consider the 
possibility that Snape may have visited the place himself as a boy, 
through connections with either Bellatrix or Regulus).  And the 
Blacks werent' DEs themselves (except for Regulus, who died trying 
to quit), so Snape can't even lump them together with the evil past 
that he himself rejected.  

Marina (who thinks Snape would've gotten along really well with 
Phineas Nigellus)
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