[HPforGrownups] Snape at school was Should Harry have told on DJU

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 100423

Pippin wrote:
>We all realize it was very hard on Sirius to be back at Grimmauld
>Place where he used to suffer abuse on a daily basis, even
>though the abusers are gone and he is now master of the
>house. We're inclined to make excuses for his sullen mood and
>his unkindness toward Kreacher on that account. What is it like
>for Snape to be at Hogwarts, where he suffered the same sort of
>thing?

The parallels could run even deeper than that. Grimmauld Place is both the
bad place for Sirius, the place that constantly rubs it in about what his
family were like and how he's been rejected by them, but also his place of
safety, the one place where he doesn't have to worry about the Ministry
arresting him and carting him back to Azkaban.

I wonder if Hogwarts was also Snape's place of safety: that his arrival
there as a teacher was linked to Voldemort's discovery that he was giving
information to Dumbledore, and whether Hogwarts was the one place where
Snape was not in danger of being hunted down by the DEs...

Cheers

Ffred

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