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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 122704


 > Renee:
> Snape apparently doesn't trust DD's judgement concerning 
others,  though it's DD's judgement of him that kept him out of 
trouble after  the first Voldemort war. He's only too eager to think 
the worst of  others, even though DD apparently never thought 
the worst of him.   <

Pippin:
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Dumbledore did  believe the 
worst of Snape, "Severus Snape was indeed a Death Eater." But 
he believed that Snape had changed. Dumbledore believes that 
people are innocent until proven guilty, but  as far as we know at 
this point in the story, Dumbledore believes that Sirius is guilty 
just as much as Snape does, and Snape has just discovered 
Lupin with him in very suspicious circumstances.

 Snape was forgiven his guilt, but this seems to have been 
conditional on his atonement "he turned spy for us at great 
personal risk." Sirius, in contrast, still thought Snape deserved to 
have been bitten by the werewolf. Snape might perhaps be 
forgiven for thinking Sirius unrepentant.

Pippin previously: 
> > On that basis the threat of dementors doesn't seem so 
outrageous. Plenty of people think that killing DE's on sight is 
 the right thing to do. Sirius and Lupin, for example, who also 
have to  be stopped by Harry from killing the  man they believe is 
guilty.
> > 

Renee:
> But you omit that Sirius and Lupin ultimately listened to Harry, 
while Snape wasn't only completely unwilling to do so, but also 
 belittled Harry (and James Potter again, but I'm willing to cut him  
some slack there.)<

Pippin:
Snape is quite right, though very rude, in conveying that  Harry 
doesn't understand the situation.  Harry doesn't know that Snape 
was Dumbledore's spy on the Death Eaters; he doesn't even 
know what a Death Eater *is* at this point and he's not at all 
savvy about fighting them. Though he knows intellectually that 
he's hardly a match for a full grown dark wizard, he still thinks 
he's safe enough with his wand in his possession, though Lupin 
has already charmed it away from him once. 

But though Snape threatened to MAKE Harry get out of the way, 
he ultimately did listen to him,  because he didn't give Sirius to 
the dementors when he had the chance.

And though Snape was not particularly happy with Dumbledore's 
decision to trust Sirius,  he ultimately accepted it, as shown by 
the handshake in GoF.


Pippin