[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Betrayal and the Themes of Book Seven

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 133066



packsim at aol.com wrote:

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>There have just been too many times that Snape has been quite alone with  
>Harry and has still been grossly mean and totally unfair.  Why put up the  act 
>when you don't have an audience?  Was he just pretending to be so mean  in front 
>of Harry so he could keep in practice (form). I don't believe  it.
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And your point is? So Snape is mean to Harry - God knows most of the 
time I would be too. I spent large chuunks of this book wanting to smack 
him upside the head with something weighty. Being unpleasant to someone 
he doesn't like is pretty much irrelevent to whether Snape is working 
with Dumbledore. Very few of the Sanpe fans are tyring to make the 
argument that he's just a fluffy bunny at heart. (alothough that's a 
kind of cute image).

Snape is petty and mean with a rather amusing and sharp turn of phrase. 
He has absolutely no patience with people he considers stupid (which 
pretty much includes all Gryffindors as far as I can tell). However 
after this book I'm beginning to wish I could have listened in on the 
Hat when he was sorted - he seems to have more balls than pretty much 
anyone we've met, certainly tan any of the 'bad' guys.

K