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

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 127404


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> Some of that sounds eerily like Snape and some of it doesn't. 
> I  don't think Snape was created with one hand on the keyboard and
> the other in an abnormal psychology text book.

I certainly agree witht that.  However, I wouldn't be too sure that 
JKR doesn't have some pretty specific mental/spiritual faults in mind 
when she crafted Snape.


 I  think he's a
> composite of several "difficult" people that JKR has known or
> observed in real life.  

That is very likely.  But I also think Snape, like all the other 
characters, has "taken a life of his own" and grown through the 
series, perhaps in ways JKR did not quite foresee.  I also agree with 
Nora that JKR's vision of Snape, and the vision popular in the 
fandom, may well be pretty divergent.


IMO, he's there so that Harry can learn how to
> deal with difficult people, just as JKR (Dumbledore) implied,
> IMO,  Harry needs to learn about going the extra mile, and he also
> needs to learn that not everyone who's easy to get along with 
> means well.  

Well, now we are dealing with preferences so fundamental they can 
fairly be called part of bedrock personality.  Some people would find 
such a theme interesting and enjoyable.  More power to them, it is 
certainly their right.  Others, like me, would find it revolting, not 
to mention insipid beyond belief and indeed frankly nauseating.  But, 
at this point, it's almost as basic of a difference as whether your 
eyes are brown or blue.


Lupinlore, who is looking forward eagerly to seeing Snape get his 
much-deserved, and hopefully extremely painful, karmic payback.