They're teenagers

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Alla wrote:

> 
> What I disagree with is your last sentence - Snape's adolescent 
> beliefs definitely become his beliefs as adult,IMO, since he did 
> join Voldemort ( unless of course you believe that Snape joined DE 
> without subscribing to their ideology, which I don't).

Julie:

It's true he joined Voldemort, but he was likely in his late teens at 
the time, I believe? And by the time he was 22 he had already left
Voldemort. Whether this parting was in part based on a change in
Snape's ideology I don't know. It's certainly possible, and also 
possible that his nearly two decades association with Dumbledore
has further influenced his ideology. We don't know for sure, because
there is really nothing in the books that indicates Snape's current
ideology on pureblood issues.  

(BTW, I don't subscribe to the theory that Snape is mean to 
Hermoine because she's Muggleborn, not when it's so easy for 
him to resent her because she's a know-it-all, a Gryffindor, and
a close friend of that cursed Harry Potter!)

Julie 


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