Snape's abuse (Re: Would an "O" for Harry vindicate Snape?)

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 131572

Tonks wrote:

> I have said before that I think Snape has a dark sense of humor that 
> is not understood or appreciated.  Hence, the remark about 
> Hermione's teeth.  "I don't see any difference" can mean "it is not 
> all that bad" and a reassuring statement. So it is a matter of 
> opinion.  Hermione was not destroyed by it, and some of us reader 
> saw it as a bit of humor.

Julie says:
  I'm more than willing to give Snape some benefit of the doubt, 
considering how much we still don't know about him. But I can't
see his "I don't see any difference" being in any sense meant as
reassuring. True, Hermoine wasn't destroyed by it, but I'm pretty
sure Snape took the opportunity to knock Hermoine down a peg
or two in a very mean way. 

I envision Snape meeting Dumbledore later in a corridor, and 
Dumbledore giving him a penetrating look, shaking his head
once, and saying quietly, "Really, Severus, I expected better
of you." Then departing silently, leaving Severus behind to 
consider his words. Because I don't think Dumbledore is 
blind to Snape's meanness, nor willing to let it completely 
pass. 

Of course, we'll never know what Dumbledore and Snape 
say to each other in private, because of the limitation of 
seeing virtually everything through Harry's eyes, but I still 
have my theories!

Julie
--who considered last night the concept of many years passing
and the Harry Potter series becoming a well-deserved classic--
at which point a future Gregory MacGuire might decide to give
said classic series a new spin, a la "Wicked" or "Confessions 
of an Ugly Stepsister," wherein Snape finally has *his* say! ;-)


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