Shaken Dumbledore? /Snape speech to Bella again

[Marianne S.]

No: HPFGUIDX 143451

Orna wrote:  Orna:
I agree with you. But I want to say that everybody accepts James
wasn't a saint – DD didn't make him prefect, Lupin says so, so it is
acknowledged that he wasn't a saint, IMO. Still DD seems to like
James, and Sirius, and Lupin more than Snape, and that might add to
the point of pain. DD trusts him, appreciates his skills and uses
him, but we don't see any real warmth towards him. Snape's tragedy
and pain is IMO that he doesn't get the appreciation from the people
he is acts for (a fate shared by many spies, and certainly double
spies).

Marianne S: I think we have not seen whatever change in Character that James went through after his 5th year. Something must have happened after that, because we know he and Lily didn't start dating until their 7th year. I can't remember exactly where we know this from; I think Lupin might have said it once. Anyway, I find it very plausible that Dumbledore didn't particularly trust James until he had matured some, sometime after those O.W.L.s as seen in Snape's Worst Memory. 

I don't think Snape is the type to accept warmth from anyone, and yet I can also believe that he could feel pained by not receiving the same kinds of positive attention that James and Sirius got. I wonder how much of Snape's TRUE motivations JKR will ever disclose. 


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