Snape-the Hero -- Snape-the Abuser

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No: HPFGUIDX 143287

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
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> 
> Betsy Hp:
> That she'd totally hang with him.  That when he's hurt she 
> feels for him.  That when he dies (as I'm afraid he will) she 
> will weep for him.  That he's one of her babies and she cares
> for him, warts and all.  He is just like Sirius, and 
> Dumbledore, and Harry for her.  In his own Snape-like way.


And yet she thinks he's a totally horrible person and doesn't 
understand why anyone likes him.  Is she lying?  <Shrug> Doesn't 
seem much like love to me.

> I don't get the feeling Snape is anything like the Dursleys 
> for JKR.  She's written him as far too three-dimensional for 
> that.  The Dursleys are there to be tortured (not my favorite 
> schtick, but there you are) but not Snape.  Because when he 
> does visibly suffer, his suffering is described as matching
> Fang's suffering.  And no one sane writes about a beloved and 
> innocent pet being burned alive expecting the audience to *not* 
> sympathize with the animal.

Except when it's Trevor and Snape is trying to poison him?  Sorry, 
couldn't resist that one.

<SNIP>
> Jumping Draco with a loaded fist and the backup of a Weasley 
> twin was cruelty.  Hagrid giving Dudley a pig's tail because 
> he was mad at Vernon was cruelty.  The twins strangling Dudley
> was cruelty.  

Sorry, I'll have to go with Alla on this one.  These seem perfect 
examples of poetic justice to me.


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