[HPforGrownups] Re: What's in it for Snape? Finding motive...

[SiriusBlack4Eternity]

No: HPFGUIDX 97466



dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
Alla
          
Now, Voldie is not back yet, so excuse of pretending in front of 
Slyths does not count and who exactly would notice anyway?




SB4E:

As far as the WW is concerned, Voldy isn't back until the end of OOTP, but we know better.  DD and Snape aren't waiting until he is back to try and defeat him.  Retroactive is not a good thing to be...instead they are being proactive.  And while Malfoy doesn't know that Voldy is making his way back, you don't think that Draco will notice if Snape treats Harry as his new buddy?  Draco, by the feast, has already had a run in with Harry, so he's already going to be watching every move he makes to report to daddy dearest.  Snape needs to maintain his cover with his former DE pals in order to carry out his part in the Order when Voldy does return.  Besides, based upon what Snape has seen of Harry, he is more convinced than ever that he is like James...careless, reckless, breaking as many rules as possible, putting others lives in danger, showing off, etc...  And based on his experiences with James, it is no wonder that he has issues with Harry.  And before anyone says that he is an adult
 and a teacher, it happens in the RW as well as the WW.  It makes Snape a more realistic character, because people that have dealings, whether good or bad, with someone and then have to deal with the children of that person are going to treat those children according to the dealings they had with the parent.  If they had bad dealings with the parent, they will assume the child is the same and treat them less friendly at the least and down right hostile at the worst...by the same token, if it is a child with whose parent they had good dealings with, then they treat the child more friendly, at least, and give them preferential treatment, at most.  Neither is fair to the child, nor is it fair to the other children, but it happens.  It's life and whether we like it or not, we are as guilty...we may not admit it...even to ourselves...as is Severus Snape.

 

SiriusBlack4Eternity



		
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