Snape can't stand being called a coward--or not

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manawydan: Rat Boy 

houyhnhnm:

I hope I don't get in trouble for going off topic, but I had to
respond to this.  One reason I can't accept an ESE Snape has no basis
whatsoever in canon and that is the fact that I had a student once who
was *identical* to the description of the teenage Snape in OotP.
Skinny, round shouldered, hook-nosed, with long greasy black hair, he
didn't cause trouble in my class; he never did much of anything at
all, just slunked in and slunked back out every day.  The other
students called him Rat Boy!

I had a slug club of my own at that school, made up, not of rising
stars, but of misfits and outcasts. I pulled a couple of thugs off the
Rat Boy one day and after that he became my dog, joined the club, made
friends, and turned out to be a pretty nice kid.

Too bad Severus didn't have any teachers who were interested in
something other than winning the House Cup and feathering their nests.