In Defense of Snape (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 122419


Dungrollin:
> I've found some canon to suggest that fear is actually a 
> good motivator, and particularly for Neville:
> 
> OotP, chapter 25 The Beetle at Bay:
> "Harry was pleased to see that all of them, even Zacharias Smith, 
> had been spurred on to work harder than ever by the news that ten 
> more Death Eaters were now on the loose, but in nobody was this 
> improvement more pronounced than in Neville.  The news of his 
> parents' attackers' escape had wrought a strange and even slightly 
> alarming change in him.  He had not once mentioned his meeting 
> with Harry, Ron and Hermione on the close ward in St. Mungo's and, 
> taking their lead from him, they had kept quiet about it too.  Nor 
> had he said anything on the subject of Bellatrix and her fellow 
> torturers' escape.  In fact, Neville barely spoke during the DA 
> meetings any  more, but worked relentlessly on every new jinx and 
> counter-curse Harry taught them, his plump face screwed up in 
> concentration, apparently indifferent to injuries or accidents and 
> working harder than anyone else in the room.  He was improving so 
> fast it was quite unnerving and when Harry taught them the Shield 
> Charm - a means of deflecting minor jinxes so that they rebounded 
> upon the attacker - 
> only Hermione mastered the charm faster than Neville."
> Make of it what you will.

SSSusan:
Motivated by fear or by revenge, do you think?

Siriusly Snapey Susan