Does SNAPE hate himself?

[khinterberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 118378


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> 
> Chrusotoxos: "I was just wondering about something I read I don't know
> where, a post saying that, after all, Snape wasn't self-disgusted at
> all and that he liked his life a lot, thank you very much.
> 
> I was unsettled by this view, because I always took for granted that
> Snape hated himself in a way or the other - I mean, if he betrayed it
> was because he didn't like his life (if he hasn't joined Voldemort
> just to spy, of course). But maybe it's true that he was disgusted
> with himself back then, and since he has recovered."
> 
> He hasn't recovered, and you were right.  The idea that Snape likes
> his life is, in my opinion, preposterous.
> 
> People who like their lives are not filled with the rage Snape is.
> Children who grow up cowering in their homes while their parents fight
> are not happy.  Kids who are outcasts at school, who are tormented and
> rejected and in lash out in turn (cause and effect wrapped up in one)
> are not content.  Snape hasn't changed.
> 
> He is filled with rage at others as well. He was ostracized as a kid,
> and paradoxically did everything he could to earn it.  That didn't
> change his anger. I doubt he ever got love for himself - the idea that
> he secretly had a crush on Lily makes sense and may help explain the
> depth of his hatred for James. Everything we observe about Snape
> shouts out his torment.
> 
> Snape, happy? No way.
> 
> Jim Ferer

I also remember reading once (if someone can find this it would be
wonderful) an interview with Alan Rickman.  We know Jo has given him
background info on the character, more than she has given other
people, and he was saying how Snape is a very insecure person.

khinterberg