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[vmonte]

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Julie wrote:

I remember reading that in an interview she gave, but I don't know 
the link. I am an Agatha Christie fan as well, so you have my 
cuirousity piqued about Snape.  Do tell!!


vmonte responds: (This is from one of my previous post # 95723)

...Snape is emotionally abusive. He is a powerful manipulator. In one 
of the books (I cannot remember where) I seem to remember MaGonagall 
(someone let me know if I'm remembering this correctly) stating that 
words are often more powerful than magic.
This is how I feel about Snape. He is great at verbal manipulation.
I sometimes feel that Snape is not on the side of Dumbledore's OOTP,
nor Voldemort's DE. He seems to have contempt for both sides, and
enjoys manipulating people from both camps.  

I remember reading Agatha Christie's last Hercule Piorot book
(Curtain?)as a kid. The murderer in that book never actually killed
anyone. The murderer was great at motivating other people to commit 
murders. The villian was so talented at emotionally manipulating 
others that he even makes them think that murder was their own idea.

Oh wait, that also reminds me of Iago in Shakespeare's Othello.

By the way...
How many times did Snape verbally attack Sirius while he was at OOTP
headquarters? I remember him basically calling Sirius a coward. Snape
knows Sirius, and he knows how to get to him. If he wanted Sirius out
of the way, these verbal attacks would work to get Sirius out in the
open, away from the safety of headquarters.

(This is just a thought. I'm not sure I believe in ESE Snape yet,  
although he would be a better villian than Voldemort.) 

vmonte