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

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No: HPFGUIDX 123035


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <> 
> Tonks here;
>  
> 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. 

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> 
> 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.  

big snip of great post
> So I guess in 
> Snapes class I would have passed my OWLS with 100%, even with him 
in 
> the room.
> 
> Tonks_op

Heather here:

I had to laugh - I too agree that Snape is an INTJ.  I am an INFJ 
(most likely to have ESP of all the types) and I was married to an 
INTJ for 11 years.  The last 8 of those years were Hell.  He was 
very controlling, manipulative, and believed the best way to make 
himself look/feel better about himself was to put those around him 
down.

My X always told me that it didn't matter whether a decision was 
right or wrong - as long as the person could justify the decision to 
him, it was right (sounds slytherin- like now that I think about 
it).  As well the phrases "preferring that events and people serve 
some positive use" and "authority based on position, rank or 
publication has absolutely no force".  Doesn't that sound like our 
Sevvie?

As for how I eventually evolved in our marriage - I had no self 
confidence, thought I was a terrible mother (I had been told so many 
times), believed that I could do nothing on my own without his 
assistance or permission (when I tried it was never good enough) and 
had no friends of my own - they all ran away when they met him.  I 
empathize a lot with Neville!

But away from him now, I am a strong person of character and people 
turn to me often as they can trust and depend on me.  Yes, I learned 
alot about myself thanks to him....  So yes, I have hope for the 
character of Neville and Harry when they can get away from their 
tormentor.

Heather