Nope, no consensus on Snape (was Re: Snape's Grudge)

colebiancardi muellem at bc.edu
Mon Nov 7 20:53:47 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 142600

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...> 
wrote:
>
 > Sherry now:
> 
> Absolutely not.  Any grown man who routinely abuses a child, simply 
on the
> grounds of who his father was, is immature in the extreme.  Harry 
often acts
> with more maturity on that one than does Snape.  After all, he 
dislikes
> Snape, but until the end of HBP, he tried to believe, at least, 
that Snape
> might be on the side of good.  Thinking of how he tried to tell 
Snape about
> the vision of Sirius in OOTP, hoping Dumbledore might be right 
about Snape,
> and that Snape might help.  Whether or not Snape turns out to be 
DDM, ESE,
> or just OFH, his behavior toward Harry is ridiculous and childish 
and not
> worthy of my respect or acceptance or understanding.
> 
> Sherry, completely agreeing with lupinlore
>

whereas I think that Snape's behavior is not acceptable, I do think 
that Harry threw the Snape is on the Good Side belief out the window 
at the end of OotP.  Harry, despite DD's assurances that Snape was 
working for the Order and did all he could have, WANTS to hate Snape -
 Harry knows it is wrong, but he feels better about it.  Even in the 
beginning of HBP, when Snape escorts Harry to Hogwarts, Harry's 
hatred for Snape is overwheming.  Harry is quick to think the worse 
of Snape, regardless of what DD tells him.  He thinks the worse of 
Snape at Christmas time, when he snoops on Snape's and Draco's 
conversation - the first thought in Harry's head is that Snape is 
still loyal to Voldemort.  Whereas Ron, Hermione, Arthur and Lupin 
all state the obvious, which Harry refuses to see.

colebiancardi(who thinks that Harry & Snape's grudges towards each 
other are about the same size by now)










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