[HPforGrownups] ACID POPS vs LOLLIPOPS (was:Re: Whom does Snape REALLY love?)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 139403

> >>Neri:
>> The fact he made it clear is important, but also the *way* he did 
>> it. I sincerely doubt that the grownup Sirius would ever shout to 
>> anyone in any situation "I, the Black Padfoot!" but somehow it is 
>> in character for grownup Snape.

>Betsy Hp:
>Oh, I think Sirius had his share of the Black taste for drama.  I'm 
>betting he could have declaimed with the best of them. 

Sirius' bent was more for over-the-top declarations of personal
loyalty and dedication (a trait he shares with cousin Bellatrix, btw;
it would be interesting to find out that a distant ancestor was an
actor or actress).  His roar at Pettigrew in the Shrieking Shack in
POA: "Then you should have died [for James et al] as we would have
died for you!" struck me at the time as the kind of grandiose
statement that adolescents make.  It's matched by Bellatrix's
declarations in HBP Chapter 2 (sorry, had to return book to library
so can't quote) about going to Azkaban and suffering there for her
loyalty, only to be punctured by Snape's withering "you weren't much
use to him (LV) there but the gesture was undoubtedly fine."

Magda

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