Narcissistic!Snape (was: Whither Snape?) [long!]

[horridporrid03]

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>>SSSusan: 
>Think also of Snape's comment to DD:  "Surely you remember that he 
tried to kill *ME*?"  Again, the possible implication that he craves 
validation, craves being considered important.<

>>Magda:
>Or simply craves being alive.<

Betsy:
Hee! Thank you!  I've been long confused as to why folks think Snape 
is making a mountain out of a mole-hill regarding the Prank.  He. 
Nearly. DIED.  That's huge.  If someone pulled a joke on me, and I 
barely escaped with my life, I think I'd remember it.  And if those 
same someones not only didn't get punished for the joke, but were 
remembered quite fondly by the staff of the institution in which the 
joke was pulled, I'd probably feel just a tad resentful.

(Of course, if I'd been held upside down, undies on display for the 
world, while snide remarks were made about my personal hygiene, and if 
said undies were later removed...  Yeah, I'd get *real* ugly.)

Snape isn't all that complicated.  The man is pissed.  Do you really 
blame him?  And yes, this all happened years ago, but the particular 
players in those terrible memories were surrounding him in the Shack.  
Anyone would lose it.  Think of it as a particularly trying 
Thanksgiving dinner - or some such family gathering.  

Betsy