Snape's Speech patterns (was CHAPDISC: HBP 2, Spinner's End)

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No: HPFGUIDX 142116

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
>
> 
> Carol:
<snip> Snape's speech is that of a cultivated
> > and educated man, not one who grew up in a derelict Muggle
> > neighborhood. 
> 
 
Sydney: 
 
> It's actually Snape's speech that made me picture him as a low-
class
> boy who reinvinted himself.  It's too perfect, to the point of 
being
> stilted-- compare his speech to the upper-class Draco or Sirius. 
Even
> Lucius Malfoy doesn't use such convoluted phraseology.  I like the
> idea of a mum who married beneath herself in class as well as 
magic,
> but I can still picture young Snape carefull practicing his 
elocution
> with a tape-recorder and the BBC.  

Marianne:
I hadn't thought of that, but I like the idea of Snape reinventing 
himself, or, at least, taking steps to hide or improve his 
background to fit with the norms of the people around him that he 
met at Hogwarts.  I think this also fits in with his penchant of 
referring to himself in the third person, which I commented on 
earlier in this chapter discussion.  Maybe it's time to resurrect 
the discussion of Insecure!Snape.

Marianne