[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's DE past

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 111398

> I do think that part of Snape's job is to keep Harry's ego in
> check. 
> I'm not sure Snape *knows* it, but I think that is why Dumbledore
> allows their contentious relationship to follow its course rather 
> than putting a stop to it. And if Snape is aware of this, or has 
> figured it out from Dumbledore's lack of action, there's no doubt
> he very much enjoys this part. He doesn't like Harry, or certainly 
> not those personality traits of Harry's that remind him of James--
> which is pretty much all of them!--and I'm sure he gets a perverse
> pleasure in bringing the brat down a peg or two whenever he can.
> 
> It's always nice when you love your job, isn't it ;-)
> 
> Julie 

I so completely agree!  

There's a lot of casual talk on HP sites about how Snape "hates"
Harry and treats him "like dirt" (or worse) but I don't see it that
way.  Dumbledore just wouldn't allow it to happen.  And once you
remove the Harry filter (ie, all events coloured by Harry's
perceptions of a person) it's possible to see things in a clearer
light.  Snape isn't nice but he's not a monster.  Umbridge is a
monster - not least because she's always so poisonously nice about
the whole thing.

Magda


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