[HPforGrownups] Adaptability was re: Harry IS Snape.

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 141320

On 10/8/05, pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:
>
> Eggplant:
> > Actually I think a nasty uncompassionate man with no empathy is the
> > very definition of evil, and I certainly don't understand why a person
> > with those tendencies would be loyal to Dumbledore and devote 16 years
> > of his life to defeating Voldemort.
> >
>
> Pippin:
> IMO, this confuses temperament with character. 'Temperament' refers to
> those psychological tendencies which are apparently biological in
> origin and can't be changed by an act of will. We all know some people
> are 'easy' -- they're sociable, adaptable, sunny, calm, patient, enduring,
> in short, they're Ron. Snape, OTOH, seems to have been constructed by
> turning all the temperamental dials as far towards 'difficult' as they
> will
> go. He's "unpredictable, withdrawing, non-adaptable to change, extremely
> negative and very intense." ...snip...

 Kemper:
I agreed with most of the Pippin's snipped post except the "non-adaptable to
change" part. I think as a spy Snape is one of the most adaptable to change.
And seems as adaptable if not more so than Harry. Ron, however, doesn't seem
too adaptable to change. He's resistant to it.
 IIRC, he's a bit anxious and once panic stricken going through the various
guards of the Stone except for Wizarding Chess, but it is also something
very familiar to him. He's anxious going to talk with Aragog and rightfully
so. He's resistant to believe Scabbers isn't what he appears and resistant
accept the suspicious circumstances of his best friend becoming a Champion
until after the 1st task. He anxious as Keeper in front of anyone. Perhaps
there are more examples, but that's what I got.
 I'm not saying that Ron is a coward. He shows courage in every book. But...
it seems he fights to keep his comfort zone.
 Kemper


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