[HPforGrownups] Re: Shaken Dumbledore? /Snape speech to Bella again

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 143443


--- esmith222002 <c.john at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> My final point therefore is, if Snape hates
> Voldemort more than 
> James/Sirius/Harry, then how is he managing to keep
> his emotions in 
> check and master occlumency around him.

That's an excellent observation. However, I think
there is a crucial difference in his emotions towards
Voldemort compared to James&Sirius.

(I proceed under assumption of DDM!Snape, who hates
Voldmemort and works for his destruction).
His hatred towards Voldemort would be more manageable,
because it's an acknowledged emotion - it's shared
with his peer group.
But his hatred of James and Sirius was never
acknowledged by the people that matter to him.
Dumbledore hasn't accepted that Sirius had tried to
wrong Snape (at least not to the level that Snape
wants), and nobody accepts that James was anything
less than saint.
So these emotions are more difficult to control. Note,
that when Sirius is down, Snape has no problem keeping
his cool around him (in OoTP). It's only when Sirius
has got an upper hand (and Snape has the reasons to
suspect that Dumbledore has chosen Sirius over him
*again*) Snape loses it.

Irene


	
	
		
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