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

[potioncat]

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> Alex:
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 Being able to laugh at oneself *can* be a trait of a weak-willed 
person colluding with his/her oppressors, but more usually a person 
who can laugh at him/herself is confident and secure in his/her 
identity.  Someone who works with teenagers really *ought* to be 
able to take a certain amount of mockery--it's par for
> the course (have I mentioned that I'm a teacher?)--but Snape is far
> too insecure to do so.

Potioncat:

Snape set himself up for the situation in the Boggart class.  Once 
upon a time we discussed this and offered a challenge to come up 
with a better solution for Neville to use on Boggart!Snape.  I 
thought of a few worse ones, but no one came up with anything 
better. You have to laugh to defeat a Boggart.

But, we're told Snape was even worse to the students after that.  
And it seems reasonable...he's bent out of shape at being laughed 
at.  But, what if there was something else going on that made him 
uspset and Harry thought it was the Boggart class? Ideas, anyone?

Potioncat (who agrees, Snape is insecure in many ways...wait, have 
Alla and I switched sides again?)