Snape wants acknowledgement for saving Harry ...

[annoyedpackrat]

No: HPFGUIDX 54305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, iluvgahan <iluvgahan at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> It's a small point, but I disagree that Snape doesn't want
> some sort of acknowledgement from Harry for saving Harry's
> life. My first reason is that in PoA when Snape confronts
> Sirius and Lupin in the Shrieking Shack, Harry gets in the
> way and Snape said something to the effect of 'you should
> be down on bended knee thanking me' (not exact quote, but i
> think it's close enough that you all know what I mean). My
> second reason for thinking Snape wants some reward is when
> Sirius escaped it made him furious, and when he lost his
> Order of Merlin (he and Fudge were talking about that in
> the corridor), I think it made him even madder..
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> 
Add to the fact that Snape never seems to get thanked for keeping a 
lid on the goings-on about school, and you have one frustrated 
Slytherin. All that ambition cries out for recognition, and Snape has 
apparently never gotten any, from his spying (since Sirius didn't 
know about it, I'd guess that his service against Voldemort was well-
buried by the Ministry) to saving Harry from a Quirrel's jinxing at 
that first Quidditch game, to the whole farrago with Sirius in POA. 

The man does a lot of hard work but never gets any recogntion  -- 
admittedly he's horrible in normal times, but he's always on top of 
things during a crisis -- and that must drive him crazy.

AnneL