Harry, Neville, and Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 90487

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "charlot7542" 
<charlot7542 at y...> wrote:
> Kneasy wrote:
> > Maybe it's me. Perhaps I imagine things and I haven't written 
what 
> I think
> > I've written. But, please, please, please, could someone explain 
> to me why
> > when I say that I believe Snape's behaviour towards Harry and 
> Neville is an
> > act, everybody ignores that part of my post.
> 


Oh, Kneasy, I sincerely apologise from snipping your post from the 
reply. But I could not find it. So, I am going to do that.
It could be an act. In fact, believe it or not I supported this 
theory 99.99% before OoP came out. It can still be an act and you are 
right, there are significant evidence, which supports that.

Nevertheless, I believe that Dumbledore's "I forgot that some 
wounds..." support the theory that Snape was upset that Harry saw 
that specific memory and not two others. I could be very wrong, of 
course.

> Charlotte:
> This is a valid point - I would dearly love to know the content of 
> those two other memories in the pensieve.
> 
> 
> >Kneasy: 
> > We all knowingly repeat how foolish it is to take JKR's 
> characterisations
> > at face value; how she deliberately misleads. Are there so many 
> posters
> > that consciously and deliberately stifle their suspicions when 
> looking at
> > Snape? Just because he's sarcastic? You fall in my estimation if 
> you do.


I AM NOT taking Snape's characterisation at the face value. Even if 
it will turn out that he was acting all along and was Harry's 
guardian angel, etc, I am taking a huge issue with the way he is 
doing it. Many Snapologists stated that Harry has to learn that being 
nice is not necessarily the same as being a good person.

But in many ethical systems IT IS. Yes, evil git pretending to be 
kind to Harry is worse than someone, who is not evil, but 
deliberately cruel. Nevertheless, I take someone who is kind and the 
Light supporter over the second one.


What I am trying to say is that Ends do not always justify the Means.

> Charlotte:
> You're allowing him an 
> almost superhuman emotional control when you assume that all his 
> negative bullying behaviour stems entirely from a subjective desire 
> to help Harry. That doesn't allow for the much more interesting 
> complexities of a man, who does much to help Harry and his cause, 
> but nevertheless can't ever completely curb his jealousy and 
> dislike. 
> 
> Charlotte

I hope I won't be yelled for saying  that I agree wholeheartedly with 
this paragraph.


Alla