Snape's bloody, violent death

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No: HPFGUIDX 71565

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snazzzybird" 
<carmenharms at y...> wrote:
> Is Snape also exhibiting a spectacular blind spot regarding his 
own 
> vulnerability?  Possibly.  I don't really see him as wearing his 
> heart on his sleeve, and he seems able to control his emotions 
pretty 
> well in most instances.  The only exception is where Harry is 
> concerned.  Perhaps he thinks that doesn't count; that his dislike 
of 
> Harry isn't likely to make him vulnerable to Voldemort.  Or 
perhaps 
> he really doesn't see that he's wallowing in sad memories when he 
> nurses the old grudge against James Potter, and that this causes 
him 
> to be easily provoked by real and imagined slights by James' son.
> 
> --snazzzybird

The line immediately made me think of Snape as a teenager.  James 
and Sirius called him Snivillus.  I assumed this was because they 
had made him cry at some point.  That he showed his emotion too much 
as a teenager and that Voldemort (or his followers) used that 
against Snape in some way (probably to make him think becoming a DE 
was a good idea.)

Maybe I'm completely off base.

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