analysis of Snape's hatred of Harry (S.N.O.T.) -CORRECTION

[bobby <siskoodo@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49090

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana <dianasdolls at y...>" 
<dianasdolls at y...> wrote:
> I wrote: 
> > Why *would* Snape hold such a deep hatred for James for so many 
> > years?  Well, I would say that Snape went to Hogwart's with a 
> vision 
> > of himself as *the* person [instead of James] who *deserved* the 
> > popularity, athletic ability and fun-loving personality that 
James 
> > must have had.  The problem was that Snape didn't have any of 
> those 
> > things and these are things that can be gained by waving a magic 
> > wand and wishing them to be so.  When, for want of a better 
> 
> 
> Dratted MS spellcheck!  That should have been "The problem was that 
> Snape didn't have any of those things and these are things that 
> CAN'T be gained by waving a magic wand and wishing them to be so."
> Sorry for all the weird punctuation, too, I didn't know that my MS 
> Word was going to mangle my post like that.
> 
> Urgh.

In our society we see hatred like this being played out on the news 
all the time. columbine for instance. What is it like to be onthe 
outside looking in? How does it feel to be made fun of, to be the 
butt of the joke? You are not the jock the cheerleader the class 
president. You have intelligence and talent, but so what others get 
all the credit, the love the admiration. Some people never recover 
from this, others go on and live fruitful lives but never think 
fondly on their high school/Jr high days. So here we have Snape. He 
gets an education, he is bright and he comes back to teach at the 
place where others made fun of him, used him as a target for their 
pranks. Now he is in a position of power and respect. All of a 
sudden, along comes the son of one of the chief pranksters, one of 
the people he hated in school. The boy looks like his father and from 
the start is a celebrity. He begins to get away with all the things 
the father did. History repeats itself. Snape responds in an 
inappropriate manner but one that psychology speaking is right for 
him.
Just my thought.
bobby