Snape the rabbit (was: Re: The length of the Pensieve Scene)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 118199


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> Another thought I had was that in the Pensieve scene, the marauders 
> are described in animal-like ways.  Just happens to be the very 
> animals they turn into.  So I wondered if Snape was being described 
> that way too, although I never came up with anything I could write 
> up for the list.

Hickengruendler:

I haven't got the book with me, therefore I can't check. But wasn't 
Sirius described as a dog who smelled a rabbit, when he saw Snape? Of 
course Sirius' connections to dogs is obvious, but in this scene, the 
rabbit is obviously Severus. The problem is of course, characterwise 
it doesn't fit at all. Snape is clearly no fluffy bunny (or rabbit), 
and the young Snape probably wasn't either, seeing how many dark 
spells he knew. And normally, older Snape is compared to a bat, 
which, from his appereance and behaviour, seems to fit a lot better.