Vengeance on Snape?Re: Snape--Abusive?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 115611


(Carol) wrote:
> <snip>  I don't see Snape as at all superfluous or "leftover from
> another time." He'll be all of forty when the series is over, 
hardly a
> senior citiaen even by Muggle standards and quite a young man 
within
> the WW. Moreover, he's highly intelligent and gifted. I would love 
to
> see his gifts acknowledged--maybe a position with the WW as a 
reward
> for his services to the Order. He's make a hell of an auror, IMO. 
<snip>
> 
> That should be "hardly a senior citizen," "a position with the 
MoM,"
> and "he'd make a hell of an auror." My apologies for the sloppy
> proofreading, which I hope didn't interfere with the 
intelligibility
> of my argument.

Jen: I meant to respond to this one earlier, and now you've given me 
a second chance! 

My thought is, does Snape really want his gifts acknowledged by the 
WW? The only information we have about this is in POA, when 
Dumbledore interprets that Snape is reeling from the loss of the 
Order of Merlin. That seem legitimate, but once again it's 
Dumbledore's interpretation. Maybe Snape is actually reeling from 
the fact that Sirius "got away" with something again. Or that three 
school children made him unconcious in the Shrieking Shack. 

Snape appears to be a loner with low regard for societal 
approbation. He doesn't seem the type to need outside monetary 
reward or intangibles. And there's always that question of whether 
the WW at large will ever *really* forget he was once a DE. I'm all 
for him finding another job, though ;).

Jen, thinking this is yet another unanswerable Snape question 
because of all the details held back for plot purposes.