[HPforGrownups] Moody/Snape

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 56721



Rane wrote:
Just sth that struck me as a little uncharacteristical... Somewhere 
in GoF (beginning of school year), it is said that Snape avoids 
looking Moody in the eye (or sth like that).
Now, obviously, Moody would know about Snape's DE past (we know he 
does as he says so in one of the scenes in the pensieve). Now, it 
would seem logical that Snape wasn't looking at Moody because he felt 
embarassed. But that just seems so unlike Snape. But, rereading, I do find him *very* self-confident, and perfectly 
capable of holding his own - and I just can't imagine him being 
embarassed - about anything, including his DE past. Especially toward 
Moody, whom he seems to acutely dislike. I would think he would look 
at Moody with the same amount of disdain Moody seems to bestow upon 
him.

Me.  I wonder how self-confident he is around somebody like Evil-Eye Moody.  I mean, at one time Moody was his direct (and scary) enemy who was a major threat to any and all DE's.  Snape couldn't have forgotten that and Moody's opinion of Snape probably hasn't changed much in the ensuing time.  (We don't know that for sure as we've never actually met the real Moody yet). And Moody isn't totally stable!  So, Snape's avoidance of eye contact with moody may simply be an unintentional reflex action which Snape himself isn't totally aware of because deep inside, he IS scared of Moody!

Another possibility, which is hard to imagine but actually quite possible is that Snape, while still not what one would ever call a nice guy is in fact embarrased and even ashamed of his DE past.  If he's "seen the light", then like anybody else in such circumstances he would find his past activities embracing such evil to be shameful.  Of course he's so closed and tight that he would never outwardly show it.  But maybe his avoidance of Moody's glaze is a small manifistation of his deep emotions over his own past.   Just a possibility.  After 4 books we really don't know enough about Snape's inner-workings to possibly know for sure.  Huggs Becky


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