Favorite Snape Scenes - He's such a lovely professor, no really.

[Tonks]

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Betsy:
I think Snape would agree with the "it's better to be feared than
loved," philosophy of life. I'm not saying Snape is right but I
don't see how this makes Snape evil.

vmonte responds: Cruelty is evil.

Tonks replies to Vmonte now:

A wise man once told me a story: There was a little bird shivering 
in the cold bitter winter. A cow came along and crapped on the 
little bird. The bird was warm and comfortable. A kind hearted 
person came along and said "or you poor thing this smells bad, it 
was a foul thing the cow did to you". And this person shoveled the 
crap away.  The little bird died. Froze to death.  Moral: Not 
everyone who shits on you is your enemy, and not everyone who 
shovels it away is your friend.
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>Betsy:
 
I can see that Snape would be a bit jealous of the school's BMOC (big
man on campus). Most freaks and geeks are -- though that's only a
part of the tangle of emotions the bullied and picked-on feel towards
their tormentors.

Tonks replies now:

I don't think most as you say "freaks and geeks" want to be big man 
on campus. Often the BMOC is a smart-ass that acts that way because 
he feels insecure under it all.  Being seen as a *big man* is 
important to him, as it was to James. On the other hand, I think 
that most very intelligent students don't even care about that sort 
of thing. They do not want to be bullied. But, so long as they are 
left alone I think that they are perfectly happy with who they are 
and what they are doing. As to Snape, Allen Rickman says that Snape 
wants recognition, this is not the same as envy. 
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Inkling wrote: 

In fact what bothers me about his teaching style in Occlumency
lessons is that it differs so much from his style in Potions. (Snip, 
snip)

It is in character for him to be supremely self confident and in
control.

It is not in character for him to appear "unnerved" and "agitated."

Now, Snape exhibits all of these strange behaviors in the first
lesson, long before Harry looks in the pensieve or flips him with
the Protego charm. Which leads me to say again (at the risk of
sounding like a broken record) that the personal drama that unfolds
between the two in the course of the lessons, while it is
compelling, does not shed light on what Snape's agenda was when he
set out to give the lessons in the first place.

Tonks replies now:

This is why I suspect that it was not a teaching lesson at all. That 
Snape was given the job to find LV in Harry and separate him out so 
that whatever comes next can happen. If it was a lesson, it is 
possible that it is something that can not be taught the same way as 
Potions. He might be using a more Eastern approach. Also there was a 
reason DD thought it would be too dangerous for Harry to be taught 
by DD himself. This all points to the *lessons* as being more than 
they appear to be, IMHO. 

And vmorte, I think Snape would like the idea that you might 
consider him as a St. Paul figure.  He does seem to have the same 
personality.

Tonks_op