[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's DE past

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 111296


Kneasy:
> Ignore the blandishments, dismiss the cajolery, spurn the spurious
> and ask yourself one question.Can you really and truly see Snape
> composing poetry and penning touching little billets-doux in the
> watches of the night?
> Neither can I.

Carolyn:
> (giggling helplessly at this new tirade)
> Ok, you've contradicted yourself. How come you reckon that he's
> dedicated his life to revenging the death of his wife and child? If
> he ain't the type to send billets-doux to the lovely Lily (and I SO
> agree!), can you really see him wooing anyone else? 

Mmm there are so many ways of loving and expressing love. I can't imagine 
Snape writing fluffy poetry, but this summer I found on my familie's summer 
house a diary recollecting poetry dated near 1900 by one of my male 
ancestors. The poems were about his recently lost child and they were not 
fllufy at all, and I can see Snape writing some of the sort.

IMO kneasy has not contradicted himself. I also detest the idea of a babbling 
Snape in love, but that doesn't prevent marriage. A family can grow out of 
many things, respect and admiration, a sense of belonging and undestanding 
between the parts. It's is not out of the bounds that Snape found one person 
that made him feel at home. 

Not passion from storybooks, not loosing the mind for a woman, but a carefully 
constructed friendship developing into a bound that is worth a revenge? I can 
see that happening.

> Granted, some major incident prompted this decision on
> tactics, something that made him plenty mad and was probably a
> betrayal of some sort, but of the heart? No, please, no.

I'd prefer him touched at that level, I find ok an attitude of 'love has had 
such a personal cost that it will be an stupid error to repeat and I'm not 
stupid, so shipping is out of the question forever'.

But I expect there's more in his past than his family affairs. He's an ex-DE. 
I suppose I over simplify here, but to me that means he's been an active 
terrorist and I can expect him having done with his on hands the work of one 
of them, and that has to count also.  

> Can't believe this is a SHIPPING discussion with Kneasy..

I can't either... but I couldn't resist.

Carolina