[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Question

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 104423

June:

> Snape is one of those folks you're always going to wonder about.  My
> question is, where did the wimpy teen get the how-with-all to become so
> menacing?  I don't think being a death-eater is for sissies, unless you're
> Wormtail.  Any thoughts on that one?

I don't think he's particularly wimpy. Skinny, greasy hair--but not wimpy.
He managed to give James a pretty good cut, and he was totally ready to
fight both of them. I sort of equate wimps with Wormtail's
behavior--cringing, whining, trying to get away--and Snape, even as a
teenager, even hanging upside down, was doing none of that. He wanted to
kick some ass.

~Amanda