Snape and Lupin's Character Arcs (was: Lupin's Char Arc)

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 9 03:34:02 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 119549


> Lupinlore:
In terms of treating Harry like a hero -- well, Harry *is* a hero, 
and has proved it on several occasions.  Being treated like one 
is  only appropriate.<
 
Pippin:
Snape has denigrated Harry's celebrity status only twice, IIRC. 
Once  during the first class when he was indeed only famous for 
being famous, and once when Harry  seemed to think that being 
Harry Potter meant  Sirius wouldn't dare attack him. It was not 
appropriate, IMO, to treat Harry like a hero at those times. 


Alla:

I realised that my interpretation of Snape's character is probably 
quite close to Eloise' recent post (although I suspect that we make 
quite different evaluations based on those interpretations :o))and 
especially to those Alan Rickman's comments she reposted recently.

As related to this post, I believe that Snape is VERY insecure 
person AND very jealous of Harry's celebrity status and the fact 
that Harry has the power to defeat Voldemort (or at least Jo lead us 
to believe it), while Snape would like to defeat Voldemort himself.

Therefore, I believe that the main reason for those comments was 
jealousy.

IF this is indeed correct, I wish Harry would offer Snape to  switch 
places and see how he likes it. :o)







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