Shaken Dumbledore? /Snape speech to Bella again

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 143444


> 
> (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
> 

Well countered! Although, that might suggest that his ability to fool 
Voldemort will have been weakened by the death of DD. Snape is alone 
again with no peer group support.

The other factor may be fear! Snape's reaction at the end of GOF 
suggests that he greatly fears returning to Voldemort. Fear would 
definitely focus the mind, and would also prevent his anger from 
boiling over.  Whereas he only has feelings of contempt for 
James/Sirius.

Brothergib