OoP: What Snape is really doing out there...

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 65416

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bookraptor11" <DMCourt11 at c...> 
wrote:

> I just find it hard to reconcile my image of emotional Snape that 
> we've all come to know with controlled Snape who is a master 
> Occlumencer.

   While Snape often expresses dislike and contempt he only seems to 
lose control of himself three times - twice in PoA and once in OotP, 
when Harry pries into his pensieve. Even when he goads Sirius Snape, 
unlike Black, is in control of himself not just flying on unfocused 
rage.

   Emotional control doesn't necessarily involve Spock-like stoicism, 
it could also also include deliberately venting emotional pressure 
through needling selected targets, (Harry, Sirius, Neville, etc.) 

   We must also remember that Snape's very real, (IMO) dislike for 
Harry, and Sirius too, does not prevent him from doing his duty by 
them as a member of the OotP which also argues a degree of emotional 
control.