Am I the only one...

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 133803


> Doddie <doddiemoemoe at y...> wrote:
> > I am absolutely livid with Snape but not for Killing 
> > Dumbledore..but for telling Voldemort about the prophecy!
> > 
> > Sheesh, look at what Snape's actions started!
> > 
> > Murder of the Potters, torture of the Longbottoms!!
> > 
> > And then he has the nerve to be snide and unpleasant among other 
> > things to both Harry and Neville when they are around him.(He 
> > cannot even manage cool indifference!)

> "Clementine":
> Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but it's possible of course 
> that the reason Snape is so loathsome towards Harry, Neville and 
> the memory of James is because he secretly hates himself for being 
> the cause of everything that's happened. We already know Snape is 
> horrible and humourless - this doesn't make him evil. Remember what 
> Dumbledore said in OotP about bad people not necessarily being on 
> the side of evil (in regards to Dolores Umbridge - incidentally one
of the juiciest and most vile villains ever written!). Harry and
Neville are the living embodiments of Snape's failure to be good 
> and he hates them for it. <snip>
> "Clementine"

Valky:
This is possibly (nay categorically IMO) the single best explanation
for Snapes behaviour toward the boys that I have ever heard, even
before I put on my Pashmina and joined the Snape camp, Clem, I would
surely have patted you on the back for this one. It makes perfect
sense to me to imagine Severus as somebody that would just want the
reminders of his past mistakes to just fade away and disappear, he
*hates* to be wrong or at fault.

OTOH it doesn't explain his contempt for Hermione, which is definitely
not fair, although she *is* sometimes insufferable, and thoughtless or
too intellectual in her reasoning and dealings with people, but Snape
took his disliking to her at first sight, it was plain not on. 

Ahh Snape's a nasty git, mostly, who should be slapped every now and
then by the nearest person to him, but when it comes to the hardest of
all choices, he's got incredible courage and fortitude.. he might make
a decent fixer upper(lol), I didn't mind that about Sirius and James..
I like Snape..

Valky 
snuggling back under her Pashmina