Snape's hidden plan?/Alan Rickman 's quote repost

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 136213


First Alla:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/136154
Alla wrote:
I don't see him as a ruler, but I most definitely see him as someone
who has delusions of grandeur.

The man in his late thirties screams " I , half blood prince".
Considering the fact that it was the name he created for himself as
a child, I find it pretty pathetic,to put it mildly.

Then Lealess:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/136173

lealess:
I think Snape leaving Hogwarts raved about "the Half-Blood Prince" not
because he is a megalomaniac, but because he has just killed someone
he probably valued and is heading into who-knows-what danger, with his
life in a shambles, and here is this kid using a spell Snape invented,
from a book the kid baldly lied to him about possessing. Just enough
to drive anyone spare, I'd say.

Now Potioncat:
Really seems hokey, doesn't it? It sounds like something out of
an 
old B movie. (Probably with Lon Chaney, Jr. as the werewolf.) But 
let's back up a little.

Slughorn's Christmas party; Slughorn has just praised Harry's 
exceptional potion making skills and offers credit to Snape. 
"Snape looked down his hooked nose at Harry, his black eyes 
narrowed. `Funny, I never had the impression that I managed to
teach 
Potter anything at all.'" 

Slughorn then calls it natural ability, says how well Potter did at 
Draught of Living Death, and starts to make a reference to Severus 
but is interrupted,

"'Really?" said Snape quietly, his eye still boring into
Harry, who 
felt a certain disquiet."

Next we have the Sectumsempra incident.
"Who would have thought you knew such Dark Magic? Who taught you
that 
spell?"

Harry is aware that Snape is using Legilimency: "the Half-Blood 
Prince's copy of Advanced Potion-Making swam hazily to forefront
of 
his mind. And then he was staring at Snape again."

I'm not sure if Harry blocked the intrusion or if Snape stopped
it 
himself. He sends Harry for his books
all of his books.  Snape
looks 
at all of them, saving the potions book for last. He even looks for 
the name in the front cover, but it isn't very obvious that he
knows 
what he's looking for, is it? Harry has no idea that Snape knows 
about the book.

In following up on Snape's detention, the first offense that Harry 
recorded was an illegal spell...I wonder if Snape's detention had a 
purpose we haven't yet appreciated?

Now we're at the final battle, depending on your point of view,
Snape 
has either been toying with Potter or teaching him. Harry's
attempt 
at Sectumsempra is merely blocked, but his attempt at Levicorpus 
invites anger. 
 
"You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who
invented 
them—I, the Half-Blood Prince!"

By now Snape is angry, but he will still simply keep Harry's wand
out 
of reach. He's also telling Harry who the Half-Blood Prince was.
He 
isn't saying I "am" the Half-Blood Prince, he's
saying he "was" the 
Half-Blood Prince. It proved to Harry both that he knew where the 
spells came from and that he had been the owner of the book.

Now, I wonder, how will that help Harry next year? Keep your mouth 
shut, close your mind, don't use my spells against me....