Snape, Snape and more Snape!

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 140364

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> Elyse:
> As for the anti social bit, I believe he is uncomfortable in
> groups of people. I think this stems from a deep mistrust and 
> suspicion of their motives.
> Of course this can be explained away by a possibly abusive 
> childhood, bullying by the Marauders, and lack of social skills.
> But I very often wonder if he had a friend he believed in utterly,
> one who may be dead or one who betrayed him for popularity.
> The Slytherin gang doesnt cut it with me. I see them as the 
> peer pressure exerted to use the Dark Arts.
>  
Gatta:

I'm with you there (see #139187). I've often wondered how comfortable
Snape was, being a Slytherin. We know he was sorted into Slytherin, so
presumably spent seven years as a Slytherin student, and that at some
point in his professorial career, he was made head of Slytherin house
and probably (?) lives in close proximity to it and to the Slytherin
students. That means that he's spent the better part of his life, boy
and man, surrounded by snotty little Slytherin pure-bloods. And Snape
is a half-blood.

Of his personality, we know that he is withdrawn, aloof, gloomy,
irritable, definitely not jolly--that in general, he exhibits many of
the symptoms of chronic depression.

We know that Draco is rude and talks down to him.

I wonder where Snape's Slytherin buddies were when James and Sirius
were hanging him upside-down. JKR doesn't say, but my guess is that
they were standing there laughing as loud as anybody.
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> Elyse: I would love to know his birthdate if anyone can provide it 
> to me. I have a passing interest in Astrology and I am very 
> disappointed that JKR doesnt use more of it in Divination classes.
> 
Gatta:
Per HPL, January 9, 1959 or 1960.