OFH!Snape scenario (Long)

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 139804

Saraquel's replies to Houyhnmhnm, Marianne and Valky made me mull some
things over:

houhnmhnm:
> >Snape [is] still carrying an enormous chip around on his shoulder 
> > over the fact that the rule-breaking, DD's trust-betraying 
> > Marauders were the fair-haired sons, while School Boy Severus...
> > is treated like the bastard step child. His biggest gripe about 
> > Harry is the way Harry is allowed to get away with rule breaking.

Saraquel:
> I think that is what really p****s him off re the Marauders – he 
> follows the rules (if we are to believe his lack of punishment 
> record), but doesn't get any attention for that from anyone, it 
> doesn't bring him the respect that he thinks he deserves.

Now Amontillada:

Very good point, both of you! I'd never quite been able to make that
parallel between Snape's resentment of the Marauders and his attitude
toward Harry, but it makes a lot of sense. It doesn't negate any of
the other theories about Snape's allegiance and his attitude toward
Harry, but it helps to explain how he ALSO emotianally reacts to Harry.


Saraquel:
> Apparently, a long time ago someone asked her whether there was a 
> redemptive theme where Snape was concerned, she said she was 
> stunned and told them to read book 7. 

Amontillada:
This MAY be the one you're thinking about, from a radio interview in
October, 1999
(http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-connectiontransc.html):
--Interviewer: There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape
--JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't
because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, can
I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said that and
you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's all I'm
going to say.


Saraquel: 
> > > Through Harry's action of saving Snape, Snape will realise the 
> > > power of love that DD was talking about, but Snape never saw 
> > > for himself. When he sees it, he will realise why Harry is 
> > > special.

Marianne:
> > ...I have a hard time seeing him have this sort of epiphany. 

Saraquel:
> Actually, I don't have a hard time seeing Snape going through an 
> epiphany.  If he was confronted by the Power of Truth and 
> Knowledge, he would accept it.   
...
> I think it could well come as as much a surprise for Harry as for 
> Snape and it will be overwhelming for both of them.  It would then 
> be clear to Snape, that he wasn't saved by Harry, but by the 
> blinding light of Truth/Love.  I really do think that JKR wants to 
> make a big bang about love in these books, as I think you know :-) 


Amontillada:
I agree about the "big bang" JKR wants to make about love--not only,
as I'm sure we agree, romantic love, but love for all others. At the
end of HBP, Harry's fury toward Snape was so strong that it was really
shoving love aside. I'm convinced that one of the central threads of
Book 7 will be his--not well phrased, I know--remembering and
reopening himself to the capacity of love.

Adding my penny's worth to a fine discussion,
Amontillada