[HPforGrownups] Re: RE:... the "Prank" ? Reverse Psychology & Impulsiveness

[sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 99973

In a message dated 5/30/2004 12:54:25 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
foxmoth at qnet.com writes:

> 
> So I can't believe that it was curiousity alone that got Snape into 
> the tunnel, or that he would knowingly act with reckless 
> disregard for his own skin. As Phineas emphasizes to us, that's 
> not a Slytherin trait. Did somebody slip *Snape* a 
> hot-headedness potion? 
> 
> Pippin
> 
> 

But I don't really think that Snape really fits the Phineas Nigellus model.  
(Neither does Regulus Black, for obvious reasons, but he's not exactly a 
Ravenclaw, either.)

Snape had to have turned against Voldemort sometime between the late 70's and 
1981 when Voldemort was at the height of his powers or getting there.  Even 
Lupin in OOP is not sanguine about the Order's chances then....."the Death 
Eaters outnumbered us twenty to one and they were picking us off one by one"  
(I''m sure you'll ask why he knows.) One could also deduce from LV's words in the 
graveyard that he was beginning to suspect Snape as a traitor, as well.

I wonder how long Snape sat under the Sorting Hat, and whether it might have 
been the opposite of Harry's situation.  Of course can you imagine what Snape 
would have gone through if he'd been sorted into Gryffindor?

Amber


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