OoP: Phone booth and Snape (unrelated)

[Clio Parker]

No: HPFGUIDX 63686

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "medeacallous"
> <medeacallous at y...> wrote:
> 
>> On a related note, did anyone notice the similarity
between Harry's
>> experience with Dudley and his gang at the
beginning (sitting by
>> himself minding his own business on the swing,
finding DD and his
>> gang simultaneously repellent and compelling) and
Snape's memory
>> with James et al?  I also noticed a similarity to
Snape when HP was
>> walking with DD back home, picking on DD and being
nasty to him
> just 
>> to make himself feel better.  Not that DD didn't
deserve it, but
>> it's just interesting, or maybe inevitable, that
Harry's taking
> that 
>> road.
>> 
>> MC
> 
 
 I thought the same. Harry and Snape have much more in
common than
 they think themselves. Both have an unhappy
childhood. Both were
 picked on by a bullying group in school. In Harrys
case Dudley and
 gang, and in Snapes case MWPP.
 And both fight back by goating the big bully when
they are in a
 position of power. Harry tries to provoke Dudley in
the dark alley
 before the Dementors come. He feels safe because he
has a wand. Snape
 provokes Sirius whenver he meets him. He feels safe
because he now is
 under Dumbledore's protection and maybe abetter
duellist than Sirius.
 
 Both have overcome their victim position, and both
try to get back at
their nemesis the same way. Interesting, isn't it?
 Also, did you notice how Hermione tells Harry in one
or two
 situations that he should stop snapping at his
friends? Well,
 snapping at the people around when insecure? Sounds
familiar. Snape
 snaps at people around him all the time.
 
 I see a great pschycological similarity betwen Harry
and Snape. And
 Harry seems to realize that, too. After the pensieve
scene he
 compares his own experiences to Snapes'.
 Of course, this feeling of relation is destroyed when
Harry starts
 blaming Snape for Sirius death. But I think there is
a lot of
 potential. Harry will have to see Snape again, if he
keeps Potions as
 a subject in order to become an auror. I think they
will come to an
 understanding in a later book.
 
 Clio
 


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