Love & Snape (was love between Snape & Harry)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 98601

>>snipping several comments<<<<
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>> Sigune:
snip He seems to deliberately keep people off. It seems like he 
*wants* to be  disliked, while at the same time craving for 
recognition –  recognition for his powers, his services, his 
cleverness, but never for his personality.


Potioncat:
Someone perhaps who's been convinced he's not worthy of love, so 
keeps a distance as protection? (Needing so much protection he 
builds a wall with cannons...not much canon here.) Yet seeks 
recognition in ways he can be acknowledged?  (Wait a minute, which 
side was I taking...)

>>Sigune:
 Who could Snape love (not to mention: who 
> could love Snape enough to set up house with him, because, as you 
> pointed out in an earlier post, this is *not* Alan Rickman we are 
> talking about)? 
...snip<<<
In any case, as far as I know (but I admit my 
> experience is rather limited), founding a family is not exactly 
the  greatest boost for one's career as you have to invest lots of 
time,  money and effort in it. Not to mention love and care. It is 
something  you really have to *want*.


Potioncat:
Well, actually in older times, with more traditional ways, having 
a wife at home to tend to your day to day needs (Don't go there 
Kneasy!) being married would be a boon to your career. Someone to 
smile at the boss at wardroom (oops) office parties, someone to 
serve as hostess when you invite the boss over....Someone to wash 
and press your billowing robes.  (I'm old enough that I was once 
mentioned on my husband's fitness report. Although at the time that 
wasn't supposed to happen any more.)

And, I've known real life Snape types perhaps not as Snapey as Snape 
of course, and they've each had a wife and family to go home to at 
the end of the day.


 
>>>snip
>>>Sigune
In any case I would find  it hard to believe Snape started a 
vendetta against Voldemort because now he has to cook his own 
dinner. But I may be wrong of course. Who  can fathom the depths of 
the Potions Master's mind? ;)

Potioncat:
It would be His family.  His wife. His children.  He would not take 
kindly to any intrusion on that. Certainly, anyone who harmed them 
would face his wrath. IMO he's the type of man who would be wrapped 
around a little daughter's little finger!

I'm not sure if Florence was the wife or if Severus was the man, but 
I'm willing to keep it as a real possibility. I'm also willing to 
consider a family not yet revealed  I'm also waiting to see whether 
JKR is shocked that anyone could think he can be loved because he 
can't or because he can. 

Well, I was responding to Kneasy and Sigune here, but I seemed to 
have snipped Kneasy's comments that started the whole thing.

Potioncat who now favors SSSusan and SSSigune for the twins. ;-)