[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as baddie ( Don't get too fond of him!)

[karyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 111204

vmonte said:
"But I do have a serious problem with Snape. I remember JKR once stating that Children are never fooled by this kind of teacher/person. And I understand what she means. Adults have a 
way of rationalising behavior in a way that children do not. My 
supicion about Snape, unfortunately, is that the children will turn out to be right about him."

Hi everyone. Tis my first post, so bear with me if this has been pointed out before. Personally I don't like Snape because he does what seems to benefit him the most. He's civil to adults, but a complete ass to his students, for example. And not for any reason in particular. Just because he can. He's not fair in any sense of the word, and I do agree that it seems pretty likely (I'm sorry if this sentence doesn't make sense, English isn't my first language), that the kids are gonna be (to some degree) right about him. Why would JKR otherwise keep repeating the whole Snape as a suspicious character? If it didn't was significant to the story, wouldn't this repeating theme have been cut out at least a few of the times? And also:

vmonte said:
"Snape holds a lot of grudges.  He seems like the kind of person that cannot forgive (and perhaps seeks revenge). He also seems very sneaky to me. I think he behaves differently in front of DD and MM (and perhaps the other staff) than he does when he is around the children. I keep feeling that Harry's penseive scene with Snape has some clue we haven't noticed yet. I also bet that Snape told Harry not to tell anyone about what he saw because there is something there (aside from the humiliation of being hung upside down) that Snape doesn't want someone else to find out.  And yes, I think he has a separate "secret" agenda."

As for the pensive, there's the obvious. It feels like if he had a crush on Lily - kids that are treated that way by their peers often do get crushes on people that defend them, and yes, I'm speaking from experience. This would (maybe) explain his hate for both Harry and LV? James didn't only save his life, which I assume was hard to take for someone like Snape - he also ended up with the girl. And since Snape couldn't be nasty to James at the time, he now takes it out on Harry. 

And if he really liked Lily, wouldn't that be a reason to break out of the Death Eaters, since LV was the one who killed her? Eh. This theory sounds too lightweigth and mushy for JKR. I'm sure she has something far more brilliant in mind. But I do agree that there's more to that pensive scene than what meets the eye.

--karyn







		
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