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

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 140313

Sherry wrote:
However, the one person I do not forget or forgive is my own personal 
Snape, a teacher in high school who was indeed sadistic and thought 
himself just pushy and tough. To make it worse, he didn't actually 
teach anything, but he was the teacher in my school, who oversaw the 
lives of the blind students in that particular public high school. He 
had enormous power over our lives, poked his nose into our personal 
business, caused me great trouble with my dad. Sometimes, it was 
deserved, but often it was not. He is the reason I never went to 
college, because for years, the very idea made me physically ill. i 
was not the kind of kid to fight back, like Harry. I was the type to 
take it in and internalize it.

So, no, I have not forgiven him. However, if I was in a position of
authority over his grandchildren, i would never ever hold their 
relative's sins against them. That is incredibly childish and 
downright cruel and ridiculous. I would never even be unkind or cruel 
to him, if I was somehow in authority over him. After all, it would 
mean stooping to his level, becoming as terrible as he was to act 
like that. I hope I am a better person than that. I have made sure 
never to see him again, and I'm happy with that.

vmonte responds:
I had a teacher like Snape too. She was ruthless to all the students 
in the class--but she liked to single me out in particular. We were 
terrified of her. And she had the uncanny ability of finding out what 
your weakness and insecurities were and would then use them to 
humilate you in front of the entire class. She was like a loaded gun 
that could go off at any minute--the slightest thing could set her 
off. 

It would take divine intervention for that woman to ever have any 
understanding of what she did to people. I wouldn't mind shoving a 
love infused horcrux into her head. It might give her the conscience 
she never had.

Vivian