What's in it for Snape? Finding motive...

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 97467

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ivogun" <miamibarb at B...> wrote:
> 
> > Lots of people have faulted Lupin for the Boggart!Snape thing 
> > w/ Neville (I don't). What *I* think was totally inappropriate 
> > in that scene was Snape's telling Lupin--in front of the whole 
> > class--that he'd better beware because Neville Longbottom was 
> > in the class. 
> 
> I don't fault Lupin either. Rowling, in one of her interviews 
mentioned that 
> Lupin is a teacher that she would like her own daughter to have. 
He's supposed 
> to be the model teacher, not Snape. The whole Boggart incident 
taught Neville 
> gave Neville a tool in being able to control his panic in Prof. 
Snape's class. 
> I think Neville was on the verge of cracking up under Snape. The 
Boggart class 
> reminds me of music teachers, who right before a recital, tell 
their panic 
> stricken students to imagine the audience sitting in their 
underwear. 
> 
> Ivogun


I said many many times that I love, absolutely love Snape!Boggart 
scene.

Besides the fact that I think it boosted Neville's confidence (even 
if we did not notice it till OoP), to me it was a perfect example how 
Bully gets the taste of his own medicine. 

I was riduculously happy that Snape and Neville switched places for 
once and Snape was in a humiliating position. Besides, that scene was 
REALLY funny to me.


Alla