Love & Snape (was love between Snape & Harry)

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No: HPFGUIDX 98614

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" <severelysigune at y...=
> wrote:
> Kneasy:
> <<Nobody ever comes back with "Hoi! You said...,,but......">>
> 
> Sigune:
> Ah. Well. Here is Sigune the Severe ready to make an attempt, however 
> poor – I did read the posts you referred to, and I have a slight 
> problem with the reasoning. OF COURSE I know you are going to wriggle 
> your way out of it, but I just want to see you do it :).
> 
> I have – in case anyone doesn't know yet – a *huge* problem with the 
> thought of Snape having any love relationship at all; which means I 
> also have a problem with one of your pet theories, namely that of 
> Snape having a family and that family being killed by Lord Thingy 
> (seems I'm not allowed to say `Voldie' anymore, so I'll stick to 
> Fudge's suggestion, which IMO is even better ;-).
> Anyway – I entirely agree with your description of Snape in post 
> 98434:
> 
> Whatever anyone can say about Snape, we have never seen him 
> affectionate, amiable or kind. He styles himself (I believe in 
> conscious styling on his part) an Evil Wizard – he looks the 
> stereotype, doesn't he, and he could easily change that. 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.
> Sigune
> ~ready for her post to be torn to bits


Torn to bits? Now would I do that?

I'm bemused  by your delightfully old-fashioned idea that (even in
Snape's case)  marriage = love. 

How quaint!

You old romantic, you!

Which is one thing Snape isn't. IMO his ideas on marriage are even
more old-fashioned than yours. He'd see a wife as little better than
a chattel. As to *why* he got married - well, accidents happen in the
best regulated of families and perhaps the incident behind the green-
house had unexpected consequences; or maybe it was a 'political' or 
'promotion enhancing' move. Maybe her family had money; maybe 
(and this is going back to a suggestion made way back, long before
I joined), the DEs were embarking on a pureblood breeding programme.

Be that as it may, he would see it as *his* family and he would brook
no interference from anyone in his private affairs. For Voldy (or one
of  his hench-wizards) to intrude into his home, to take something
or someone that was his, would be a insult he would find unbearable.
(Think Italian, then multiply x10.) He would have to respond, his 
self-respect would demand it. Snape is a proud man and it's very,
very bad news to hit a man in his pride. Whatever his feelings for
Florence he'll feel he let them down, he failed as head of the
household. Now he's looking for retribution. He has something
to prove, if only to himself.

This is besides any feelings he may have had for Snape!Son. 

And you never know, someone may have slipped him a love
potion when he wasn't looking. 

Kneasy