When do Snape's eyes glitter? (was: In Defense of Snape (long))

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> Pippin had an intriguing speculation:
>
> Now, that doesn't mean that Snape *never* hates Harry. He 
> does, IMO, especially when Harry is being egregiously 
> James-like. But we should have a 'tell' for that, and I think we do. 
> Harry notes in his first potions class that Snape's eyes  look like 
> cold, empty tunnels. But when he goes to confront whatever at 
> the end of GoF, they glitter. Suppose the empty look is 
> occlumency at work; Snape hiding whatever thoughts and 
> feelings would contradict the lie. The glitter is honest emotion. 
> So let's see:
> 
> Snape sneering at Harry's fame in Book One? No glitter. Potion 
> making ability? A random check of passages reveals no glitter, 
> just smirks and sneers, though it would be rash to say it never 
> happens without checking them all.
> 
> We get the glints and glitters when Snape accuses Harry of 
> being like his father, and when Snape is in the Shrieking Shack, 
> but *not* when he accuses Harry of helping Sirius escape. They 
> appear when Snape accuses Harry of invading his office but 
> *not* when he reads the Witch Weekly article, and interestingly, 
> not when Snape finds Harry in the pensieve . There's anger 
> there, definitely, but not hate, not if you believe the glitter clue.
> 
> Thoughts?


Neri:

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PoA Ch. 6:
 "Everyone gather `round," said Snape, his black eyes glittering, "and
watch what happens to Longbottom's toad. If he has managed to produce
a Shrinking Solution, it will shrink to a tadpole. If, as I don't
doubt, he has done it wrong, his toad is likely to be poisoned."
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Does your theory imply that Snape's attempt to exterminate Trevor here
was out of "sincere emotion"? If so, it seems Neville was right to be
afraid of Snape.


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GoF, Ch. 18:
"Antidotes!" said Snape, looking around at them all, his cold black
eyes glittering unpleasantly. "You should all have prepared your
recipes now. I want you to brew them carefully, and then, we will be
selecting someone on whom to test one
"
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Yep, definitely scary. The man seems sincere.


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GoF, Ch. 28
"I need to see Professor Dumbledore!" said Harry, running back up the
corridor and skidding to a standstill in front of Snape instead. "It's
Mr. Crouch
 he's just turned up
 he's in the forest
 he's asking -"

"What is this rubbish?" said Snape, his black eyes glittering. "What
are you talking about?"
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Does this mean that Snape prevents Harry from getting DD's help out of
sincere emotion? Yes, I think I agree with this part of the theory. It
would be more useful, however, to have a "tell" when Snape is in
secret agent mode. 

Neri