/ChapDisc/TheDetentionCards/Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 150396

Catlady wrote: 
> I expected the witch to have lured Tom Sr with beauty rather than 
with
> a Love Potion, and therefore expected her to be his victim, rather
> than to feel sorry for Tom Sr. (I always liked the idea that they
> weren't even married, but I didn't really expect JKR to go for it.)

Potioncat:
I may have misunderstood this. You're saying you had expected that 
they had never married, but you were wrong? Because, yes, DD says 
they were married. I'm not clear on whether Riddle knew there was a 
child on the way.




 Very much like
> Snape and Draco, whose snarkiness is one of their 'good' points.

Potioncat:,
Yes and they're very good at being bad.

 
> It has been speculated that young Severus was good enough at sucking
> up to teachers that he avoided getting detentions. I dunno that I 
see
> that in his adult personality. But adult Snape seems to be a friend 
of
> Filch, so maybe young Snape was a friend of Filch and Filch didn't
> give him detentions. And Filch's detention cards might well only
> record detentions given by Filch.

Potioncat:
I don't see anything in the books that would indicate Filch and Snape 
are friends. Filch performs some tasks for Snape, just as he might 
for any teacher. Filch seemed to like Umbridge very much.

Your idea that the cards only reflect the detentions handed out by 
Filch is very interesting. If that's the case, Snape might not be in 
them. No, no, this is not good. Now I'm seeing a Severus-Argus 
friendship something like the Hagrid-Harry friendship....no, that 
won't do.


 
> Surely he smiled nicely when he got one of his invented spells 
refined
> just right. And probably when he got an exam paper or an essay back
> with a perfect score.
> The man who made that poetic PS/Ss speech about the beauty of the
> softly shimmering cauldron must have been happy when he was making
> some of those potions.

Potioncat:
I think you're right. Severus would have been happy when improving a 
potion-making technique, creating a new spell, perhaps getting 
a "well done!" I wonder if that the hook the DEs used to recruit him.