In Defense of Snape (Against Snape in JKR's words)

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No: HPFGUIDX 122118


Pippin:

Um, no, actually I meant the one who implied that Irish people 
were drunks and so on. That wasn't the same one, was it? But I 
think if you've had bad experiences with a RL teacher who 
reminds you of Snape,  they get projected on to the character, 
and if you've had good experiences with a Snape style teacher 
they get projected too. IMO, we'd all like to validate our 
experiences by having Snape get the fate we wish our real life 
teachers could have had.


Alla:

Not necessarily, Pippin, not necessarily at all. I mean absolutely 
our RL experiences reflect on our readings of the books, but you 
know what I think of Snape, right? :)

With all honesty I am telling you I NEVER had a teacher as bad as 
Snape, not even close, not even in law school (I think I mentioned 
it earlier).

I had quite a few incompetent teachers, but I never had sadistic 
teachers.

Nevertheless, I do consider what Snape does to Harry and Neville to 
be evil, everyday evil, if you mind.

It certainly has something to do with my RL experiences, but I still 
cannot figure out what.

Maybe I just in general consider cruelty to children  and enjoynment 
of their sufferings to be disgusting character trait in any person. 
I am not sure.

 
Maybe it is just the fact that I had so many GOOD, FAIR teachers and 
Snape's behaviour is just so... different from them. :)

Maybe it is because I was taught in college that Snapelike behaviour 
has no business in classroom.

As I said, I am not sure, but I don't think that your assumption of 
direct projection is always true.


Just my opinion,

Alla