Snape's DE past

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 111310

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:.
> But the rest of you - stand firm. 
> 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.<

 I quote, "the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its 
shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep 
through human veins, bewitching the minds, ensnaring the 
senses...

and that perfect little haiku

I can teach you how
to bottle fame, brew glory,
even stopper death

Why, the man even casts a logic puzzle into verse.

Or do you think somebody else writes his material? <g>?

Now I agree  that JKR is not a romantic writer. She writes as one 
who has found romance works better as the goal of personal 
transformation than the means. Ergo, I don't believe that Snape's 
love for Lily was the reason he joined the Death Eaters or the 
reason he left them. I do think that unresolved feelings about Lily 
are part of what makes it so difficult for him to let go of his
hatred for Harry and James.

Pippin