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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 127371


Nora:
> This is sloppy Sirius 'nearly killed him', James 'sexually 
> humiliated' him.  It rather fits in with Narcissistic!Snape not to 
> make fine little niggling distinctions like that, no?  [I wonder if 
> that one time that my friends Ducky got pantsed by a fratboy 
> registered in his mind as sexual humiliation...]

Pippin:
Um, Lupin says that Sirius "nearly killed" Snape. PoA ch 18

As for the sexual harrassment, Harry  wonders how his mother could
have married James and then wonders if he forced her. Think about
that. Why does JKR have Harry wonder if James forced his mother into
marriage, except to show that he understands there's a sexual aspect
to what his father did?

Nora:
> I don't think it is.  I think it takes a particular temperament, 
> character, set of mind to look at a child from having known his 
>father at school and go "Opp, just like the old man, he is", and
then 
> proceed to behave that way in the face of all evidence.
>  

Pippin:
The evidence is hardly unambiguous from Snape's point of view.
Is Draco like his father? A lot of us think so,
and yet his actions could be interpreted in other ways if you
were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. How odd that
we expect Snape to show more discernment than the average fan <g>

And if we all agree that it would have been idiotic of Snape to
listen to Sirius  when he was told about how to get into the
willow, then was it really irrational of Snape not to want
to listen to Sirius in the Shrieking Shack?

Pippin