[HPforGrownups] Re: "Lapdog" and "snivel"

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 115225

--- justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> (Notice, btw, that James's dislike of Severus seems very
> casual and offhand, something he has not thought out or even
> questioned until Lily asks him what Snape has ever done to him, a
> question for which he has no valid answer. Sirius's hatred of
> Severus, however, is virulent and personal. In fact, James hexes 
> Severus for Sirius's entertainment, for no better reason than that 
> his best friend is bored. It's as if Severus is not a person to him

> but an object to be manipulated.)
>
>Carol

I noticed that the first time I read the chapter and ever since have
wondered about it especially in connection with Sirius' claim that
Snape as a kid was into the Dark Arts.  There's something definitely
off about that claim - either it's not true at all or Snape (like
Sirius himself) came from a DA-sympathetic family with purist
sympathies or it's true and for some reason wasn't important during
their school years as Sirius remembers it as being.  

I'm sticking to my bastard-Black theory for this question.

Magda

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