Snape's Meyers- Briggs type( was : More on Snape

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 122567


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> 
wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2005 at 17:45, leslie41 at y... wrote:
> 
> > Snape is most obviously an ISTJ in the Meyers-Briggs personality 
> > scale.  Here's the link to the site which decides what 
personality type you are (take the test as Snape and you will 
undoubtedly get ISTJ as the type):
> <SNIP>

>Shaun now: 
> Yes, but personally I've always felt Snape to be more of an INTJ 
> (although a rather unhealthy one) than an ISTJ (I'm an ISTJ 
> myself... Percy comes across to me as ISTJ).
> 
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately 

Tonks here;
Ah, just when I thought there was nothing left to say about Snape. 
The Meyers-Briggs, of course! Thank you Leslie for bringing that up. 
I agree with Shaun as to Snape's type. I am an INFP or sometimes 
close to an INFJ in a work setting. 

I had a boss once who was an INTJ and she was a living hell to work 
for. Nasty... she would make Snape look like a Saint!! I like to 
think that Harry is an INFP too.  Intuitive and Feeling meets 
Intuitive and Thinking.  One sees the other as cold and uncaring. 
That one sees the other as wearing their heart on their sleeve.

THAT WOMAN I worked for. I just hated her and felt guilty for it 
too. She was emotionally abusive. I would go home in tears or rage.  
One day I came up with a way to keep her from getting to me. I guess 
it was Occumency!!  I put up a protective barrier around my 
heart/mind. I would not let her insults in. I turned off my feeling 
part when around her so she could not hurt me. And much to my shock 
she knew it. She said to me one day "I feel a wall, like you have 
put up a wall and I can not get in". How right she was!!! She could 
sense it I guess because she was also intuitive.  An intuitive that 
is without feeling is a dangerous person in my option. They would 
make a good spy, or a good DE. They could do what ever nasty thing 
needed to be done without feeling bad about it. Not a feeling type. 
We even have compassion on Snape and Tom. When I wasn't furious with 
THAT WOMAN I could have some compassion even for her, but not often. 

Now here is another thing that THAT WOMAN and Snape have in common. 
Much to my surprise, in spite of her intelligence, and intuition she 
did not really know the impact that her behavior had on others.  I 
discovered this one day when she told us all that she had been with 
her grandson and when he started to cross a street and a car was 
coming she grabbed him and called him Stupid!! The kid bust into 
tears and she just didn't understand why he would do that. Not a 
clue. And this woman was a psychotherapist!!  Not a clue. We all 
hated her.  And so it is with Snape. 

Now I really hate to admit this, but I did learn things from her. It 
was my first job out of college. I was so afraid of doing it wrong; 
I learned to do the best assessments possible. I think I would have 
learned it anyway, but maybe not. There is something motivating 
about fear, sorry to say. And the superivisors that I had later
(after they fired her) did not expect as much of me. But I learned 
to do it to please her, and I was very good at it. So I guess in 
Snapes class I would have passed my OWLS with 100%, even with him in 
the room.

Tonks_op