Hurt/Comfort Rankings

[derannimer]

No: HPFGUIDX 57045

Cindy, who ranked *Peter Pettigrew* ahead of Snape, which I guess 
says something pretty disturbing about *her* tastes, wrote, for her 
Hurt/Comfort Meter:

> 8. Snape. I must take issue with the idea that Snape's allure is 
> based on Hurt-Comfort. We hardly ever see Snape get physically 
> injured -- just the thing with Fluffy, IIRC. Snape suffers lots of 
> indignities -- people don't listen to him, for instance. But that's 
> hardly Hurt-Comfort. 

Well, but as I understand it, Hurt/Comfort doesn't have to be based 
on physical pain. (I actually prefer it to be based on emotional or 
psychological or spiritual pain.) I mean, you yourself gave "guilt" 
as a Hurt/Comfort thing that Sirius has got going for him. But we 
know for a fact that Sirius only stayed alive in Azkaban by focusing 
on his fundamental *innocence;* the only thing he's really got to 
feel guilty about is poor judgement, and in these books who *hasn't* 
got poor judgement? Snape, on the other hand now, has got some 
*serious* guilt issues going. If Sirius can be guilty I don't see why 
Snape can't.

<waits for the disgusting Prince of Lies theory to raise its ugly 
head>

> I think women lust after Snape for another reason entirely -- he's 
> a challenge, a conquest-in-waiting! Oh, if you can get Snape to    
> love you, then you are without question supremely loveable. Sorry, 
> Derannimer, I'm not giving you Hurt-Comfort!Snape. Not yet, anyway.

> I wish I could, as I suspect you dearly want him, but I just 
> can't. ;-)

<whines>

Elkins! Where's Elkins? Here we are having a Hurt/Comfort discussion 
and Captain Cindy's making very rude Personal Remarks about me and 
the blasted Hurt/Comfort *expert* is nowhere in sight! What's with 
that!

<stops whining>

But seriously, Cindy, *Elkins* said that Snape has Hurt/Comfort. I 
mean, *Elkins* said it! 

". . . it's all that angst that does it, right?"

And it's true. Apart from everything else, *Elkins* said it!



Derannimer, who has to say that she can't see any reason to put 
Pettigrew on the list *at all,* even if Elkins once also said that 
people are very diverse that way