[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape vs. Sirius (was: Snape's Stubbornness)

[laurie goudge]

No: HPFGUIDX 127086


> Sherry wrote:
> I'm always curious why people consider Sirius so 
> terrible, refer to the fact that in OOTP he still 
> hates Snape, hasn't matured, etc, etc. and yet, 
> Snape hates Harry for the mere reason that Harry's
> father was James.  How adult and mature and putting
> the past behind you is that? <snip> I think that 
> holding a grudge against a child because you hated
> his father is one of the most immature and ridiculous
> things possible.  So, how is Snape any better than 
> Sirius?


Sirius really isn't any better than Snape in that
reference. But in my own small corner of the world I
sorta think that Sirius has a reason for kinda not
being totally mature emotionally--I mean he was all
locked up in Azkaban for 12 years so it's not like he
had time to do stuff like get a job, start a family
and actually mature through responsiblity and dealing
with the outside world. Besides I always took Azkaban
to be kinda creepy and the sort of place to
emotionally scar even the toughest person.

So in my mind what is Snape's excuse. Not that I am
justyfing how he is or the way he treats Harry, but at
least Snape didn't have to deal with being tossed in a
horrid place for something you didn't do...

laurie