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

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No: HPFGUIDX 122187


 Tonks here:
 
What I am saying is, yes, Snape is a mean, nasty man.  But once he 
was a scared little boy.  And the scared little boy, in order to 
survive the abuse took part of the abuser into himself. This is what 
I mean (in an earlier post) when I say that Snape as a child 
internalized his father figure. Nasty people don't start life as 
nasty people.  And true some are so nasty that we can not see past 
that and pity them. I have met nasty people too, and some I could 
have compassion on and some I just hated with all the rage I had 
within me.  Snape is certainly a well written character to cause 
such strong reactions (for or against)from us all.



Alla:

Oh, Tonks, absolutely. Snape is VERY well-written character, that I 
can never deny and usually I DO feel sorry for  the characters like 
him at least in fiction in RL too, but I need to see that he is 
SORRY for what he had done or AT LEAST does not do those things 
anymore.

You know what I am saying? To me Snape continues to wrong the 
innocents and my first instinct to feel sorry for abused not for the 
abuser.

And yes, he looks like abuse victim  and as I said many times his 
emotional development seems to be stucked in his teens, but that is 
precisely why Snape became significantly less symapthetic figure to 
me after OOP. From the abuse victim he became abuser himself.

Does he need help? Absolutely. Am I supposed to cut him more slack 
for what he does to children? Not in my opinion.


Just my opinion,

Alla