Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 141052

PJ wrote:
2) In CoS he tries to have Harry expelled. (Ch5 pg81 Scholastic)
It's canon that once you're expelled your wand is snapped and you
aren't allowed to perform magic anymore. So the one person who,
according to the prophesy Snape heard with his own ears, can defeat
LV is the same person Snape wants expelled and permanently disarmed.
Hmmmm.....


vmonte:

"He is mediocre to the last degree, though as obnoxious and self-
satisfied as was his father before him. I have done my utmost to have
him thrown out of Hogwarts, where I believe he scarcely belongs, but
kill him, or allow him to be killed in front of me? I would have been
a fool to risk it with Dumbledore close at hand." (Page 31, Spinner's
End)

Snape has tried to get Harry expelled, period. What anyone wants
to believe regarding his intentions are irrelevant. Snape did try to 
get Harry expelled in CoS, we all read the same passage.

It is very clear that Snape does not believe in Harry like
Dumbledore does, and that he actively tries to undermine Harry in
everyway possible--although not enough to get himself in trouble, of
course.

I'm rereading GoF right now and it's apparent that Crouch Jr. is the
only person in the HP series that realizes what Snape is. Crouch Jr.
knows that Snape is OFH. His interactions with Snape make that very 
apparent to me. Read the scene on the staircase again with
this in mind. Barty Jr. is threatening Snape on the stairs. He 
secretly knows that Snape is not loyal to any side, and he lets Snape 
know it. I love how Snape backs down and goes to his room with his 
tail between his legs...HAHA

(BTW the attitude Crouch Jr. has towards Snape and Draco makes it
very apparent to me that he sees them as two peas in a pod.)


Vivian