Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 140831

Betsy wrote:
Hmm, but again, young!Snape doesn't come across as a bully in what
we've been shown. So it seems strange to just assume that this must
be why he joined the Death Eaters. What young!Snape *does* come
across as is lonely. An outsider. Perfect material for any
recruiter happening by. (Or at least, that's what Oprah's taught me.
<g>) I'm sure bullies and sadists *did* join the Death Eaters to
have better fodder for their tastes (see just about all the Death
Eaters on the tower in HBP), but it doesn't necessarily follow that
*only* bullies and sadists joined the Death Eaters.

vmonte:
But he is a bully and a sadist according to canon, therefore he is 
the perfect recruit. He was probably never recruited anyway, he 
probably enlisted himself. 

By the way, Tom Riddle is also a loner, outsider, sadist, and bully. 

Betsy:
Also, you seem to be suggesting that Snape still acts like a Death
Eater. Frankly, Molly Weasley seems more anti-muggle to me. Hagrid
and the twins have participated in more on page muggle baiting than
Snape has. (Heck, the twins nearly *killed* the muggle they
baited.) Actually, Snape has *saved* more student's lives than any
other teacher at Hogwarts, IIRC. Hardly Death Eater behavior, IMO.

vmonte:
Here we go again. Face it Betsy, you and I are not reading the same 
books. I'm sure that Molly and the twins don't represent the enemy to 
JKR either.

Vivian
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