[HPforGrownups] WINDOW SILLS

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 80917

From: "Deirdre F Woodward" <dwoodward at towson.edu>
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> The two don't add up.  Why would Snape hate the child of the woman he
> loves/-ed?  Can any of us imagine hating -- despising with the
> blackest of hatred -- the child of the person we love?  Without
> provocation?

Although I'm a die-hard Snape fan and don't really support LOLLIPOPS, I had
to pop up and say something to this.

Any Sherlock Holmes fans here?  If so, the "Case of the Norwood Builder"
comes to mind.  The villain in this story fakes his own death and sets up
all the evidence to make it look like the son of his former fianc committed
the murder.  His only provocation was that she broke off the engagement and
married another man when she realized what kind of person the Norwood
Builder was.  He harbored a deep grudge against her ever since - and, since
the son was a grown man and old enough to be a practicing lawyer, he had
held that grudge far longer than Snape would have (20-something years as
opposed to 10).

Diana W.