Retribution for Snape the Teacher (was Snape, Hagrid and Animals)

[ornadv]

No: HPFGUIDX 143982

>Leslie:
>As for Snape's "hysteria," the only time I recall him becoming
>hysterical was in PoA, when he nearly lost it at the end there when
>Black escaped.

>Valky:
>As would I probably have gotten a bit hysterical. But, to be honest,
>Snape had no proof of his accusations so I don't think DD was trying
>to shut him up as trying to help him see reason.

Orna:
I think it's a little bit of underestimating the situation. Snape 
has a strong (and correct) intuition about what is going on. He 
just "knows" Harry has done something – and he is dead right. Now he 
finds himself unable to get any support, or even mild attention to 
his suspicions. DD "helping to see him reason", is a way of driving 
him crazy, literally. Because he doesn't help him to interrogate 
Harry, (with or without Verisatrum), and he does make Snape (who 
after all has got it right!) look like a fool. He even sort of 
tantalizes him in front of his pupils, when he says that unless he 
wants to suggest that Harry can be in two places at the same time

 I'm not saying I would like it different – I'm happy Sirius and 
Buckbeak were rescued; I even enjoyed DD making fun of Snape – 
because he was after all in a raving mood to get his revenge on 
Sirius – no matter what. And since Snape didn't stop to listen to 
Sirius' and Lupins story about Wormtail, it was only fair and poetic 
justice, that DD dealt with him the way he did. But "trying to help 
him see reason" – that's stretching the truth a little bit far, 
IMO.  I feel DD was driving him crazy. 

Orna

P.S. and IMO he did get hysterical or at least very "mad", when 
Harry looked in his pensieve, when Harry called him a liar, when 
Harry "caught" him in PS with his leg injured, when Hermione tried 
to sneak on him at the staff room in PS. All incidents, when we 
would ourselves get quite angry, but still – quite a lot of times. 
As a matter of fact, Snape being a superb occlument, it is a little 
bit puzzling – are these incidents when his occlumency skills brake 
down? That's how I understand it, but
 Are these parts of his ways 
to build his frightening image towards other, and therefore more 
under control, than it seems? Is the strain needed for continuous 
occlumency too much, and therefore he brakes down in those times?