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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lagattalucianese" <katmac at k...> 
wrote:
>
 These are two very vicious kids (and 
> I'm not sure "vicious" is even a strong enough word for Peter; to me 
> he seems downright perverted), and I think Harry's initial reaction 
> to the Prank was right on the money (don't take my word for it, 
> here's Canon comin' atcha--OotP, Am.Ed.): 
> 
> 
> "Harry tried to make a case for Snape having deserved what he had 
> suffered at James's hands--but hadn't Lily asked, 'What's he done to 
> you?' And hadn't James replied, 'It's more the fact that he 
*exists*, 
> if you know what I mean?' Hadn't James started it all simply because 
> Sirius said he was bored? > 


Lolita:

I'm not saying that anything gives the right to anyone to publicly 
humiliate a fellow student because he 'exists'. However, we seem to 
forget that the Pensieve episode is not just a case of two vicious 
kids attacking an innocent victim. The spell used on Snape was the one 
*he invented*, and, while I agree that the attack as we saw it was 
unprovoked, we simply cannot deny the fact that it was a classic piece 
of forcefeeding someone a taste of his own medicine. Are there any 
people out there who honestly believe that James came up with the 
Levicorpus spell independently of Snape, that the two of them were 
some weird sort of Kant & La Place? Of course not. I bet that Snape 
had used that spell on James on numerous occasions, and that James 
felt it was about time to return the favour. 

And let us also not forget that Rowling herself said that we should 
not feel too sorry for Snape. I'd say that the Pensieve episode, 
however despicable, was, in James & Snape's universe, a sort of 
an 'eye for an eye' thing. In OotP, it did serve its purpose - to make 
Harry sympathise with Snape - but now, after HBP, we know a little 
more of the story, and we simply cannot resume thinking of Snape as of 
a poor, innocent, picked-on victim who never attacked first. The hexes 
in his book are way too nasty for that. I neither believe nor say that 
he was evil, but he was most definitely vicious, even at 15.

Lolita