"I thought he could overcome his feelings..."

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129318


> Tiffany:
> 
> Hi. Maybe the thing is that Snape just doesn't react to Voldemort 
in the same way he reacts to Harry. maybe, because neither Tom 
Riddle or his father ever picked on Snape in school, and because 
Voldemort just doesn't matter to Snape in the same way Harry does, 
Snape finds it easier to cut off his own emotions around Voldemort. 

a_svirn:

Let me get it straight. You mean that Harry, whose worst crime 
against Snape is his being the son of the bully who made Snape's 
life at Hogwarts miserable, "matters" for him more than 
LV? "Matters" in the sense `arouse more powerful negative emotions', 
I take it? So unspeakable crimes which Snape undoubtedly witnessed 
and in which quite possibly (I'd say even probably) participated 
simply pale in comparison with being publicly ridiculed by a bunch 
of Gryffindors? But that makes Snape a sick bastard and NOT a 
repentant, but quite genuine DE, and DD should have packed him off 
to Azkaban instead of letting him near children under his care. 
Somehow I have more faith in DD's judgement, though. 

> Tiffany:

Maybe Snape's bad temper was also supposed to give Harry a taste of 
what he might be up against in the 'real world". > 
> 

a_svirn:

Harry was orphaned as a small infant and spent next ten years being 
horribly mistreated. Since he started Hogwarts there has been at 
least one attempt to kill him every year, and in the GoF he 
witnessed the murder of his schoolmate, was subjected to the two 
Unforgivables, and was very nearly killed yet again. Not to mention 
such trifles as the tasks in the tournament, detentions with 
Umbridge, nightmares with LV etc. I'd say he doesn't need any more 
lessons about the "real world".  

a_svirn