Snape's plant imagery

[curlyhornedsnorkack]

No: HPFGUIDX 124516



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kempermentor"
<kempermentor at y...> wrote:
> ...Snape-the-teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him, like a
> plant left in the dark."  (OoP, soft, 640)
> 
> 'Plant' not 'weed'.
...
> Left to survive in the dark rather than thrive in the light.
>

Snorky wrote :
A potted plant is more likely to be left in the dark than a weed,
unless the dark is the result of being in the compost pile or bin.
Perhaps Rowling should have written "potted plant". The interesting
thing about a potted plant is that it can usually be moved, so there
is something hopeful about it.