Snape's DE past

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No: HPFGUIDX 111399

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> 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
> 


Alla: 

Casual talk? I disagree. Even if you remove "Harry's filter" you are 
still left with Snape wilingly letting Harry to be possessed by 
Voldemort, even if you remove "Harry's filter" you are still left 
with Snape insulting Harry's dead father every chance he gets. (And. 
no I don't think that interaction in PoA was on private grounds, 
because it was still in Hogwarts).

Nobody can take away "monster" title from Umbridge, because she 
clearly is.

But Snape is a sadist, IMO. Someone who never got a chance to set his 
score with James, even though James is dead and now he tries to 
settle it through his son.


I think he is on his way to redemption, but nope, he is nowhere close 
yet.

I don't want him to hug the Trio, but I want him to treat human 
beings, who are under his supervision,not his size, and never did 
anything bad to him , accordingly.