Snape's Personality (Was HBP Thoughts, Snape)

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 133423



> vmonte:
> There are a few clues though to Snape's personality. He is very
> clever. He has the ability to talk himself out of anything. He has
> both Voldemort and Dumbledore believing that he is on their side.
> 
> In temperament though he is more like Voldemort than Dumbledore:
> 
> He mistreats those he feels are beneath him
> He has delusions of grandeur
> He changes his name: like Tom Riddle and creates a new persona for 
> himself--he reinvents himself: TA DAH I'm the Half-Blood-Prince
> He does not really have any friends and seems to prefer it that way
> He is obsessed with the dark arts--he even invents more killing
> curses (nice hobby)
> He is rather sadistic and enjoys manipulating people with his words
> He is a racist even though he is not a pure-blood
> He came from an unhappy or neglected childhood
> He holds grudges (the grudges are even against the children of the
> people he hates)
> He is emotionally stunted
> He has probably killed several (many?) people since he was once a 
DE
> He is so scary when he kills Dumbledore that even the baby eating 
> werewolf steps away from him in fear---LOL!
> 
> 
> Didn't JKR once say that children are never fooled by this kind of 
> teacher...
> 
> Maybe Harry is right!
> 

Marianne:

Thank you for putting this list together.  I was starting to work on 
a post of "Snape as Voldemort Wanna-Be" but you've covered many of 
my points.  

I wonder if, in Snape's school days, he was recruited by Voldemort 
himself.  Snape is obviously intelligent, and if he has a knack for 
developing spells that thrill those who practice the Dark Arts, it 
would not surprise me if he came early to the attention of 
Voldemort, perhaps through an introduction by Lucius Malfoy.

Did Voldemort sense what buttons to press on young Snape?  Did he 
draw parallels between his own life and that of Snape – witch 
mother, Muggle father, fathers in both cases who did not love or 
respect their wives, and were dismissive of their sons?  I'm 
extrapolating a good deal on Snape's family life judging from that 
one small Pensieve scene, but it fits with my thoughts.

So, here's Lord Voldemort, impressing the young Snape, hinting at 
how he, too, can break free of the mundane wizard world, how he's 
much too intelligent, worthy, and skilled than others, especially 
those horrid Gryffindors.  And, Snape, perhaps in a bit of hero-
worship, styles himself the Half-Blood Prince.  Whether or not he 
ever made mention of that title out loud to anyone else is 
debatable – it might simply have been his own little ego boost, as 
if to say, "I'm better than the likes of purebloods like Potter and 
Black." 

Marianne (post #1 for the day)