Snape in the Shrieking Shack (was re:time-turning)

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 112918

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynx412 at A... wrote:

 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > How do we know that Sirius was never punished for his actions in 
the 
> > Prank? He was not expelled, true. But surely Hogwarts are able to 
> > offer other punishments? I don't know, thousand detentions in the 
> > Forbidden Forest, for example.

Cheryl:
 
        Granted, we don't know how or if MWPP were punished of the 
Prank, what 
> we do know [or can assume from Cannon] is that Snape doesn't think 
they were 
> punished enough. Personally, I don't think DD overlooked it. I hope 
that in 
> the remaining books we'll find out just what DD did about it at the 
time.
> 
>        The Other Cheryl

...and Alshain:
Knowing what we know about Snape's hatred of MWPP and his fear of 
being subjected to ridicule, would any punishment short of expulsion, 
drawing and quartering, have sufficed then? I think not. And now, 
after he's been brooding on The Incident for half his life, letting 
those feelings fester inside him? Nothing anyone says is going to 
make him change, because I don't think he's ready to admit to himself 
that he's wasted half a lifetime with being angry and bitter with the 
people who bullied him in school. And there's great and twisted 
pleasure to be had in casting yourself in the role of A Victim 
Unjustly Wronged, whether it's true or not. 

I find Snape's self-respect quite intriguing. On the one hand he has 
very high opinions of himself and his worth and takes himself far too 
seriously (or he might have made fun about Neville's Boggart instead 
of becoming angry); on the other hand the bullying MWPP subjected him 
to must have hurt his self-confidence badly.

Alshain