[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 24: Occlumency

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 109261


--- mhbobbin <mhbobbin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Perhaps it was the image of Lily Potter in the Mirror that upset
> Snape...not the image of Cedric as had upset Harry. Immediately 
> after these images, Snape goes on a rant, "Fools who wear their 
> hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions,
> who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this
> easily--weak people...stand no chance against his powers"
 
> Who is Snape talking about as a fool? Harry or himself? 


He's talking about himself.  And this little rant is very significant
because it's the first bit of autobiography we've ever got from Snape
himself and it's the first time he's ever really tried to give Harry
what we might view as advice, to really communicate with him.  (Snape
being Snape, of course, he does it Snapishly and it goes over Harry's
head completely since he sees it as more criticism.  The deaf talking
to the deaf, these two.)

It's also, IMO, Exhibit A against the claims that Snape is wallowing
in self-pity about being bullied by the Marauders.  There's not a
syllable of self-pity in that speech.  Snape blames himself
completely for falling for Voldemort.

Magda


		
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