A Quick (well ... kinda) Snape Thought

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51255

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> Okay, here's the thing:  I've been reading all these posts about 
how Snape 
> could be nice and how he's irrational and all this other stuff.  
But he's 
> NOT.  He's Snape.  Wouldn't the book series be really boring if 
everyone were 
> nice and good and true all the time?  Snape adds a dimension to the 
books!  

ME:

Nice!Snape would be Gilderoy Lockhart. I call Lockhart the AntiSnape. 
You can pick ANY part of Snape from appearance and fashion sense to 
talent and experience and you will find its opposite in Lockhart. I'm 
convinced that JKR actually wrote Lockhart with that in mind and set 
up the dueling club to rub it in. Even the kids, who HATE Snape saw 
him as the 'hero' there!



> Not everyone is gonna be nice to people - even when horrible things 
happen.  
> Example (a tiny OT, but it serves a point): Recently, a girl's 
mother died.  
> She's in band and choir with me.  My friend Laura doesn't really 
like the 
> girl.  I asked if we were going to the funeral home and she 
said "No, we 
> don't like Danica."  



And that to me, is what JKR means by "Snape is a deeply horrible 
person". Not *evil* in the sense that he's going to go postal at the 
end of book 7, take a bite out of the nearest neck for a quick energy 
boost and jump on the head table using Neville as a human shield 
while screaming *"I am VOLDEMORT! YOU FOOLS!"* but in the sense that 
he'll just never, ever be the warm, fuzzy type. He's not going 
to "come around" in the end and start handing out Happy Potion. 

Melpomene--Apprentice Snapologist (if I get something really wrong, 
will I get detention?)