[HPforGrownups] Snape as father figure, was Sirius as Father Figure

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 130930

Sherry:
>
> i completely disagree with the idea that the authority role is the one the
> child remembers and appreciates when he grows up.

I didn't say "the one" anywhere. I don't think there is any one man in these
books who is a complete father figure to Harry. I think Snape is one of
many; most of the adult men with whom Harry has contact represent, I
believe, various aspects of the male parent. For Harry, those aspects are
much more discrete than for most of the rest of us. He can have his
negatives associated with Snape; his respect and admiration associated with
Dumbledore; his affection associated with Arthur Weasley; etc.

What I was saying, was that I think his relationship with Snape is going to
be the one that develops further, and that I doubt he will allow himself to
recognize it or its importance to him.

Alla:

> To conclude, I see what you are saying in the general kind of sense
> ( and it does not come as a surprise to me - I have read some of
> Snape as Harry's father fanfiction ), but I think that Harry
> deserves REAL kind of father figure, the one which would love him,
> NOT hate him, even if such bond of hatred is one of the stable
> things in Harry's life so far.

I wasn't making a commentary on what Harry deserves; I was talking about
what Harry's got. I don't disagree with you, but a "real" father figure is
not what Harry has now, at least not rolled into one person.

~Amanda