Snape - A very good hater

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 69645

 --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith 
 <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
 
 > Something terrible happened and Snape blames Voldemort. And will 
 do. 
 > For ever.
 > 
 > O.K., what?
 > 
 > JKR has confirmed that there are staff members who have families. 
 But 
 > it's confidential. To be revealed later. There are only two real 
 > candidates for plot significant families. Dumbledore for possible 
 > bloodlines and Snape, probably for motivation.
 > 
 > Let's try a little speculation.
 > 
 > Who hexed Bertha because she watched him kissing Florence? James 
or 
 > Sirius would laugh it off, but not our Snapey. He would hex, 
afraid 
 of 
 > providing more ammunition for James to torment him with.
 > 
 > Who was the shouting, hook-nosed man in the memory Harry 
glimpsed? 
 Most 
 > assume Snapes father. Not necessarily. Snape is hook-nosed, after 
 all. 
 > Read the passage again. A string of three memories.  Harry was 
sure 
 he 
 > had broken into Snapes memories, seen scenes from Snapes 
childhood. 
 It 
 > was unnerving to think that the child he had seen crying was 
 standing 
 > in front of him. In no case was there a definitive identification 
 of 
 > any character made. Harry is under mental attack, stressed, he 
gets 
 > just a glimpse. Is JKR being sneaky and could she claim there is 
 just 
 > enough ambiguity to be a genuine red-herring?
 > 
 > This is the best possible lead to a motivation for Snape that I 
 have 
 > come across yet.
 > 
 > Suppose the man is Snape, the woman Florence, the child theirs. I 
 doubt 
 > if Snape would be a sharing, caring father; or a lovey, dovey 
 husband. 
 > But he would not tolerate an intrusion into *his* family. What if 
 > Voldemort did intrude, violently, irrevocably. How would Snape 
 react? 
 > Voldemort would have a new enemy. One who thinks. A Cassius. 
Ready 
 with 
 > a metaphorical dagger.
 > 
 > Convinced? No, maybe you aren't. 
 
Me:
Maybe not convinced, but in a way it makes sense. I can picture 
young Snape making this Florence pregnant by mistake. Something he 
probably didn't like at all. As already mentioned, he was in that 
case probably not a loving caring person - rather somebody who either 
didn't take much part in their lives or just decided to stick around 
without too much of an effort to make anyone happy.

If Florence and the boy somehow died thou, by the hand of Voldemort, 
he might too late have realized that a family could have been 
something not so bad afterall. Then it makes sense - even more - why 
he dislikes Harry. If his own son couldn't live, it hurts to see that 
annoying James' son alive - possibly thanks to information Snape gave 
to Dumbledore after he turned his back to the death eaters.

Even worse for Snape would be if he somehow indirectly was 
responsible for what happened (asuming the scenario above ever took 
place). That could easily damage a persons capability of enjoying 
life for a very long time - even for ever.

Personally I hope this is not the case - because so many others I 
have sympathy for Snape, and I really want him to turn out OK, and 
that life will offer him something good - a good friend, a family or 
just a job he would like. He is not likeble, I would never try to 
make friends with a person like that in real life, but somehow it 
would feel sad if he turns out being evil (to be mean is one thing, 
that can possibly change) or if he will be full of hate for ever.

/Marika