[HPforGrownups] What's wrong with being bad ?

[Rebeka Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 102186

Del:
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> Snape seems to be one of those people. He grew up in the Dark 
> Arts and seems to have adopted early on a "Dark Outlook" on life 
> so to speak. He doesn't seem to like niceness and sweetness and
> light, and seems to prefer darkness and cruelty.
>
> And I'm wondering: what's wrong with that? Isn't he entitled to
> choose as he wants? It makes his and others' lifes harder, but 
> so what? Isn't it still his right as a human being to live as he 
> chooses? If others disagree (and many do), it is their right to 
> fight him and prevent him from hurting them. But if he likes
> darkness rather than light, and cruelty rather than niceness, what 
> Higher Rule is he breaking, if he doesn't believe in a Higher Force?


Okay, for the first time, I decided to join "Let's
Get Snape Down" topic. :)

I don't see Snape as a cruel person, nor even a nasty
one. I see him as a bitter person, and the facts are
all too clear (in the books, for me at least). I'm not
saying that Snape was a abused child (we can't say
that for sure, I still believe that kid in his
memories are not him, but a child of his own), neither
he has grown up psychologic injuried because of the
Marauders (since he seemed to know how to
defend/avenge himself pretty well).

Snape is a bitter person for all his life has become.
Since the beginning, I see Snape treating Harry and
Neville quite worst than the rest of the students.
Everyone assumes that he gives Harry this because of
his father attitude towards him in their teenage
years, but I think of that as a red herring.

After all, Harry & Neville are the boys to whom the
prophecy was made. Let me phrase this better: Snape is
a bitter person, he just isn't the nice type of guy,
he'll never be (one of my uncles is a teacher, and
he's bitter, and acts a bit like Snape to his
students). But he has being 'undercover' for
Dumbledore in Hogwarts for almost fourteen years, both
of them waiting for Voldemort's return. Whatever is
Dumbledore plans for Snape, I believe they both had an
agreement that Snape should never look like he's on
light side (again - not saying that he would be giving
candies otherwise).

What would be better for him than treat those two
boys, who every DE knows that could be Voldemort's
downfall, nastily. Even then, I see Snape deal with
Harry in such a way that the boy wouldn't be such
bighead because of his fame. He never lied to Harry;
when he told the boy his father was a bighead, he was
right (proved by "Snape's Worst Memory"). He tries to
put Harry into detention for things that Harry did
wrong, even though Harry saves the day (for good or
for worst, wandering in the castle after hours is
forbidden.). Problem is, Dumbledore always seems to
make things smooth to Harry, and that Snape
disapproves (and I don't really think that his temper
is so 'cold' as he tries to demonstrate).

Neville, in another case. As some of you have already
pointed out, he came to Hogwarts as a insecure boy,
for several reasons: their parents' condition, his
lack of magical spots as a child, an overprotector
Granny. Snape presses him to do something, that's how
I see it, but in such a way that for everybody else,
it seems to be mistreat.

Rebeka
(Truly hoping that she made herself clear :P)

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~Rebeka