[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: What Snape is really doing out there...

[Gino LV.Ledesma]

No: HPFGUIDX 66454

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 09:23  AM, griffinmore wrote:
>  I've been lurking for a while, and hopefully, this will be my first
> post!! I agree whole heartedly with Snapes redeeming characteristics,
> but no matter how upset he may have been with Harry for "violating
> his privacy", Snape had no right to deliberately disobey a direct
> order from Albus Bumbledore. Snape had to have known how important
> those Occlumency classes were. I think that they were just as
> stressful to Snape as they were to Harry. After all, Harry was having
> a bird's eye view into Snape's life as well. It seemed to me that
> Harry felt sorry for Snape and wanted to appologize, but Snape
> reacted rather childishly. Don't get me wrong; I like Snape,
> especially the whole mystery surrounding his character, but he acts
> just a juvenile a his Slytherin students sometimes. Just my opinion.
> Hope I did this right. Peace, from Griffinmore

Er... well, I don't know. Seeing as it's Harry's "nature" to sneak 
around, wouldn't it have been better if he were the one to approach 
Snape and apologized first? I know... pretty far-fetched, and Snape 
being a part of the Order _and_ as a teacher should've been more... 
"professional," but, IMHO, Harry absolutely had no right whatsoever to 
pry into someone else's private property. Hadn't he learned that 
already last year when he "curiously" wondered about Dumbledore's 
pensieve? And now knowing full well what the pensieve does, wouldn't he 
have thought twice (or thrice) about doing the same to Snape?

I agree Snape didn't act as how a ... "grown up should have acted," 
which leads me to believe that there's _really_ more to it than just 
his humiliation in the past. Something else (which may run deeper) may 
have caused a far more "traumatic" (or psychologically hurting) effect, 
and this he has not yet come to terms with. Its pretty much obvious he 
didn't like James Potter, so it could also be possible that, aside from 
"backing out of the werewolf prank", James may have done something else 
in the past to Snape which the latter didn't expect.

Of course... All these are just jumbled guesses. :)

Gino Ledesma
   // Top 10 Reasons Compilers are female: #10. Picky, picky, picky.