Is Hermione a mother-figure?/Does Snape despise Wormtail?

[Brittany]

No: HPFGUIDX 53781

Greicy wrote:
> My friend, whom I recently bought PoA as a birthday present, has 
> made an analysis.  She says that Hermione is like a mother to 
Harry 
> and Ron.  I told her I don't see that.  She broke it down for me:
> "Yeah sometimes... she tells them that they are not to do this and 
> not to do that... she helps out in a motherly way that's all.  I 
am 
> not saying that she is trying to be their mother, just trying to 
> help them out to do good things and not get themselves in trouble."
> 
> So what do you guys think?  I really can't make a decision.  She 
> does seem motherly, but I can't help but think of Bossy!Hermione.  
> Is it because she's an only child?

I can see where someone would get that, considering Hermione does 
act as the voice of reason sometimes, and of course, Harry doesn't 
really have a maternal figure (Ms.Weasley is just becoming that way 
largely).  But Ron doesn't need one, and he basically argues with 
anything Hermione says.  So I think Hermione is just more mature in 
the fact that she thinks before she acts.  Harry just does what he 
feels is necessary, whether or not it's reasonable.  And Ron acts on 
emotion a lot of the time.  But anyway, there are a lot of times 
when Hermione has no clue what's going on, or doesn't know what to 
do, and she panics or gets very anxious.  Personally, I've never 
really thought of her as motherly, but yeah, maybe when she's older.


Greicy wrote: 
> Now about Snape.  I remember that Snape doesn't like Sirius, James 
> and Lupin since Hogwarts, but I don't recall him ever saying he 
> didn't like Pettigrew.  Are there any references to him saying 
that 
> he didn't get along with Pettigrew?  Or didn't like him?  If he 
> didn't, I'm started to suspect that maybe Pettigrew was part of 
the 
> Death Eaters a little bit more than a year.  James, Sirius, and 
> Lupin knew someone was passing secrets for a year (did Lily know 
as 
> well?), but was he passing secrets even longer than that.

The thing I used to wonder about Snape, is that did he ever know 
about Peter?  That would mean he knew Sirius was innocent.  I've 
always assumed he didn't like Peter, but maybe it was like Malfoy 
towards Neville.  Just disdain or something.  Rowling has never 
really mentioned it though.  But the more I think about it, I don't 
think Snape ever knew about Pettigrew (the Pensieve chapter in GoF, 
where Harry sees the Karkaroff trial, and Karkaroff explains that 
the Death Eaters never necessarily knew all the other Death Eaters, 
then Moody makes the comment along the lines of, "Which was a smart 
move wasn't it, as it prevented someone like you from naming them." 
(that's the jist of it anyway, I can't remember exactly, and I don't 
have the book with me)).  So, Lord Voldemort might have kept the 
spy's identity from all the other Death Eaters, which would have 
been a smart move, and he might have realized that there was a spy 
in his midst as well (Snape being the spy, of course).  But I do 
think it likely that Snape might have been the one to tip off James 
and Lily that Lord Voldemort was after them.  That would make 
Dumbledore trust him.  That's just speculation, though, and it's 
been discussed before.  

Anyway, there is that insult Wormtail makes to Snape on the 
Marauder's map in PoA, when Snape is trying to prove Harry was in 
Hogsmeade, after Malfoy saw Harry's head.  So, from that, I assume 
all four of the group didn't like Snape, though I think James and 
Sirius would have been the ones Snape felt the most animosity 
towards.  It's easy to compare it to Malfoy and his relationship 
with the trio.  Malfoy insults Hermione and Neville, but never tries 
to seriously hurt them, just maybe hex them.  Harry and Ron, I think 
he would consider seriously injuring (the Dementor stunt in PoA, 
during the Ravenclaw Quidditch match).  But as I said, I don't thing 
Rowling ever specifically mentions it, in Snape's relation to Peter, 
just how he hated James, and still hates Sirius.  

The interesting thing for me, is that he seems to want Sirius dead, 
he mentions the Dementors may kiss Sirius, when it looks as if Snape 
has caught him in the Shrieking Shack.  James, he hated, but if he 
did tip off James and Lily, it seems he didn't want James dead, and 
though he hates Harry, he has saved his life, and does look after 
him in the books, albeit in a very odd way.  It just seems 
interesting that Snape's and James's hate for one another is always 
talked about, like Malfoy and Harry, yet he seems to hate Sirius 
more.  Is this because he feels at all grateful towards James for 
saving his life?  No idea, but I kind of doubt it.

There are my thoughts, anyway.

Brittany, who has always hated Snape, but grudgingly admits he is 
probably trustworthy