[HPforGrownups]Snape & James vs Sirius(WAS Is Snape unfair with House Points?)

[Anne NGUYEN HOANG]

No: HPFGUIDX 56809

>
> How many really "nice" people do you know--how many of them are nice
> to *everyone*? Now, how many of those are *genuinely* nice?
> Severus Snape is considerably LESS nice than most--and probably ONLY
> because he doesn't bother to PRETEND to be nice. But he's certainly
> NOT alone in visiting the sins of the father upon the son. One
> shudders to think what Sirius Black Jr. would suffer in his classes.
>
> (well actually, this "one" doesn't, this "one" would probably enjoy
> every minute of it)
>
> Mel
>

you bring an interesting point here, do you think Snape's hate for 
Sirius is stronger than his hate for James ?

In other word, do you think that the sense is stronger than the 
sensibility when we're talking about Snape ?

James is disliked (understatement) by Snape for illogical reasons... 
James is a famous quidditch player, he is a leader, his girlfriend is 
miss perfection, and lot of people like him. James certainly played 
pranks on him, but it's small potatoes compare to the whomping willow 
case.
Snape on the other's way... was intelligent (cf knowing more curses 
than seventh grade students) but not enough to be the first student 
(James was, Sirius was second, and I bet Lily was third) he wasn't a 
headboy (James was) and on the quidditch field, we don't know if he 
played, we just know he's skilled enough to be a referee (anyway James 
was propabily be the best one)
Snape looks like the eternal second

On the other hand, his feelings toward sirius have solid grounds to 
grow up (i'm personaly against any form of retribution, like death 
penalty but I do understand why snape would hate someone who tried to 
kill him, even unwillingly). Plus during more than ten years Sirius was 
the nice guy everyone trusted and who betrayed his best friends.

Snape's reasons to hate Sirius seems to me "good", but it looks like he 
hold a stronger dislike toward James. Maybe because James saved his 
life once and so he can't hate him in peace.

but maybe, Snape hates James for a reason we still don't know (and i 
don't talk about a lily-snape thing, i'm totally allergic to that 
theory). I know that we must not talk about TMTMNBN  (The Movie That 
Must Not Be Named) but everyone saw that james' death wasn't onscreen. 
It does mean that apparently we still don't know clearly how James died 
(on contrary to lily)and therefore who he was really, we just have 
second hand information about him

Annechan