Snape and Neville

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49353

In a message dated 07/01/2003 02:39:25 Eastern Standard Time, 
datalaur at yahoo.com writes:


> Snape does a lot of threatening, it seems, but very little carrying 
> out of real threats.  The worst I can think of, off the cuff, is 
> threatening Neville's frog -- and surely Snape could tell if the 
> potion was made properly.  And even if not, killing a frog can hardly 
> be equated with using highly-regulated truth-potion on a student.  
> Kind of a Snapey version of tough love in getting students to pay 
> attention during danger.

Don't get me wrong, here, I love Snape......

However, I truly believe there is a lot of baddie in him. He psychologically 
abuses poor Neville when I would think he would know of Neville's past, i.e. 
his parents losing their mindsbeing raised by what seems to be a stern 
grandmother, and the distinct possibility that Neville might be under a 
memory charm, himself, thus causing some of his bumbliness ( I don't actually 
think "bumbliness" is a word, but I like it.)

Now, could there be motive to Snape's harshness to Neville? Possibly. He 
might be endeavouring to pull Neville's good mind from the memory charm, but 
he is a right meanie about it all. 

Another possibility is that Snape deep down does not like to be feared; 
perhaps a psychological scar left on him from having been a D.E. And, so he 
wants Neville to stand up to him and overcome his fears. In this process, 
Neville would grow as a person and learn to respect rather than fear Snape.

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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