Why do we call Snape "greasy git' and what other names can we call him. WAS

[colebiancardi]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> wrote:
 
> From One Jen to another:
> 
> This is exactly, exactly what makes Snape a tragic figure. The 
> choices he made! He did go into the dark arts full force. He did 
> ally with the Dark Lord! He made big mistakes and they are mistakes 
> he'll pay for the rest of his life. The redemption of Snape will be 
> a bigger story than any of the others threads if this works out the 
> way it seems to be going. Imagine, a misunderstood, abused child 
> grows up into a dark and brooding man, looking for a place to fit. 
> Makes the wrong choices but somehow gets back on a better path. 
> Still messed up and bearing tremendous scars but he's put his trust 
> in someone capable of seeing the good in him. This is a very 
> powerful mythic level story. We are all broken, cracked, damaged 
> goods and all hoping to redeem ourselves at some level.
> JenD
> >

alas, I doubt we will see that story with Snape in book 7.  The HP
series is about Harry, not Snape.  Hopefully, we will get a chapter or
a least a part of a chapter devoted to the redemption of Snape, but
I don't think we will ever get the full backstory.  I do hope we will
get the reason why DD trusted Snape completely, but that is all I am 
hoping we get.  Anything else is highly unlikely.  All of the
speculations that he was abused as a child -which I am leaning towards
he was not abused, but neglected, if his mother died when he was young
- the speculatation that he was poor(grey underwear & greasy hair does
not equal poor all the time), why he joined LV - I doubt any of those
things will be put down in canon by JRK.  It isn't important to the
story of Harry Potter.  

colebiancardi
(but I could be wrong.  JRK may be writing HP and the redemption of
Snape as book 7 - LOL)