[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's plant imagery

[Charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 124318


> Carol:
>> That image caught my eye, too, and it seemed to suggest neglect on
> the part of the adults in young Severus's life--his parents, his
> head of house, maybe even Dumbledore. I think the boy Severus had
> enormous potential,...edit... but that's what the image of the
> pallid, neglected plant suggests to me, and I find it very sad.
>>
>> But the absence of light may also, as you suggest, indicate that he
>> was raised to believe in the values of the Dark side,....
>
> Valky:
> I agree with you Carol, and Kemper, I am sure the plant imagery is
> used by JKR in the same way done so many other characters throughout
> the books, to say samoething huge about it while only literally
> saying something apparently insigificant. I like the way that both
> of you have understood it and I agree.
> Just one thing I would like to add.
> Sirius' house of a dying person, Bodes sepulchral voice, I wonder if
> we might also think over how the plant left in the dark could have a
> more /literal/ meaning like these ones. I mean, is there an actual
> plant that might hae something to do with Snapes mystery, for
> example, the reason Dumbledore trusts him. Or could it be to do with
> Devils Snare? That's just and odd thought that came to mind while
> thinking about how right you both were.

Charme:

I have to thank you guys - I remember reading that reference and never put 2 
and 2 together.  It's still a double edged sword, though: the point Carol & 
Kemper makes WRT Snape neglected, raised to believe the values of the dark 
side and then Valky's conparison of the imagery associated with the Black 
"mansion" and Sirius.  However corny it sounds, it ain't that far from 
"Snape" to "Snare" though, is it? ;)

Charme