Snape as father figure, was Sirius as Father Figure

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No: HPFGUIDX 130951

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:

> Let's stir the anthill. (Assuming, of course, someone has not 
already done
[...]
> 
> I think Snape holds to his hatred for a reason; while it's real 
>enough, I think it also helps with a smokescreen he must maintain for 
>his role. 

After re-reading OotP this summer, I have this unshakable conviction 
that Snape's harshness and favoritism toward students have been part 
of the role he is playing to maintain his bona fides with Malfoy and 
other supporters of LV.  Of course he buries himself in the part 
because he has so much baggage to contned with.

 
> Harry, on the other hand, has not had one belief to date about 
>Snape's actions that was not entirely Harry-centric. [...]

Even though the books are written in the third person, in the 
tradition of coming-of-age stories, the world that is presented to us 
is the world as it appears to Harry.  Part of the process of growing 
up is learning to see adults as they really are rather than as the 
benignant or scary giants of childhood.  I agree that there is some 
kind of "obligatory scene" that has to take place between Harry and 
Snape.  I am eager to see what it is.  I can hardly wait till July.

Houyhnhnm