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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 97472

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SiriusBlack4Eternity 
<willowsgreyghost at y...> wrote:
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> SB4E:
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> Go back and re-read the passage...I think that a lot of people are 
mixing up movie contamination with the books.  As I am currently re-
reading SS/PS, I was reading the section...Snape does nothing more 
than to look past Quirrel at Harry.  It says directly into Harry's 
eyes...now all we have to go on was that Harry has "feelings" from 
the look that he doesn't like him.  The book gives us no evidence 
that Snape did anything at all in that scene that was inappropriate.
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I will definitely reread the passage. :o)
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> SB4E:
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> Whether anyone has a right to act on feelings they have toward a 
child in a situation like this is a mute point...they do.  It doesn't 
matter that it's not fair to judge the child based on the actions of 
a parent, it happens.  Everyone...some will deny it...but, everyone 
will do it if in the position to interact with the child of someone 
that they knew.  Sometimes we do it knowingly, but many times we may 
not even realize that we are doing it.  Is it right?  No.  Is it 
justifiable?  No, because if it is not right, it can't be 
justifiable.  But it happens, irregardless...somethings are hard to 
get over and in Snape's case, being bullied at school by perfect 
Potter after being abused at home was it... and whether we (or Snape) 
realizes that we are doing it, I can guarantee that the child 
notices...thus we get Harry's point of view and as a teacher, I can 
guarantee that the actions from the child's POV will be magnified 
about 1o times or more...making any indiscretions a lot worse than
>  they really were.  I'm not saying that Snape is justified, but he 
has his feelings to try and battle and on top of that, he has Harry's 
blatant disregard for rules, etc to try to work through as well.  I 
just think it makes him very realistic and a much more fun character.
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> SiriusBlack4Eternity
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Sorry, to me no matter how much Harry may exaggerate Snape's hatred 
or "supposed hatred" of him, we also see Snape's actions and they 
speak for themselves.

I disagree. The teacher does not have a right to act upon his 
personal feelings towards the child. 

I had quite a few wonderful teachers in school and I still remember 
what my favourite teacher told me once. That if it was up to her, 
half of my classmates were in jail.
Trust me, she did not act like that towards those children at all.


You don't get any argument from me that Snape is a fun character, 
nevertheless I have strong urge to slap him quite a few times. :o)


Alla