McGonagall and Lupin's reaction to Harry's story (and Snape's DE past)

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No: HPFGUIDX 138638

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> Knowing someone as a colleague and teacher is not the same as 
> knowing 
> them as a person in the deeper sense.  And that is what we now can 
> (with a lot of backing) postulate was the Snape/all the teachers at 
> Hogwarts relationship.  I'd hesitate to even call it friendship.
> 
> It's often advanced by the DDM!Snape advocates that Snape is a
 > very, 
> very good actor--good enough to fool Bella et al., and good enough
> to 
> have been a spy within Voldemort's camp, et cetera.  This can
> surely 
> also then be applied to his relationships within Hogwarts.  And
> then 
> Snape goes home for the summers, and does whatever.
> 

Snape is a loner, probably an introvert.  Loners are automatically 
mistrusted by "normal" people, no matter how long they have known 
them, because they don't make an effort to fit in, or perhaps to even 
be really known.  Dumbledore has apparently tried to draw Snape into 
school functions, and the Potions Master sits there and grouses.  He 
only seems to be extroverted with his peers, and that mildly, at 
Quidditch matches, but matches have the advantage of being 
competitive, so he has an easy role to play.  He is extroverted, more 
or less, with students, but that again is an easily played authority 
role.  Other than that, he probably rebuffs the staff, except perhaps 
those who are more on his previous social level (Filch?).  Given his 
loner personality, it is not impossible that people have written him 
off on a personal level a long time ago, have maybe even been 
suspicious of him because they haven't taken the effort or been able 
to know him.  Not only that, but he has walked a thin line as a spy, 
with only Dumbledore's trust to balance him.  This is the same trust 
the staff and Order members have been counting on, as well.

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