Sadistic!Snape? (was:Snape's canon opposite/ Proving loyalty...)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 140267

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lealess" <lealess at y...> wrote:

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> As far as Lupin and Black, all the adults are doing the twist in the
> Shrieking Shack, talking about the revenge they will wreak... not just
> Snape.  He really didn't do that much in the scene.  And he got bumped
> around for his revenge-driven words.

Doing the twist and letting someone twist: not quite the same thing...

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"Up to the castle?" said Snape silkily.  "I don't think we need to go 
that far.  All I have to do is call the dementors once we get out of 
the Willow.  They'll be very pleased to see you, Black...pleased enough 
to give you a little kiss, I daresay..."

What little color there was in Black's face left it.

"You--you've got to hear me out," he croaked.  "The rat--look at the 
rat--"

But there was a mad glint in Snape's eyes that Harry had never seen 
before.  He seemed beyond reason.

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Okay, we all know that Snape actually does *not* do as he says he's 
going to here, and takes them back to the castle.  What else, then, is 
he doing in this excerpt than enjoying Black and Lupin being scared, 
and pleading?  This is the point where Snape is in control of the 
scene, after all.  If we want to say "Oh, just a little gloating at 
having caught the evildoers," that actually makes my point.

I still have some real questions about this part of the book: my main 
one is whether Snape is sincere when he says that the children have 
been Confounded, because if not he's trying to shut up anyone who could 
contradict his story, and that's not the action of a man doing the 
right thing.  So I do hope he was sincere (a moral virtue in the 
Potterverse, to have one's professed and actual emotions in alignment--
so long as the emotions are in the right place), there, but I don't 
know if we'll ever get that answered in book.

-Nora finds it hard to wake up without the sun