[HPforGrownups] Snape's Cruelty Has Purpose (Was Re: lily/snape)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 150537

Deb here:

 I think Snape was very angry and upset when Harry pursuaded the Sorting Hat
to put him in Griffindor that first night at Hogwarts... if Harry had gone
along with the Sorting Hat Snape's life would have been much much easier!!
After all even LV would understand that a House Master has to be nice to his
students .... 
at least once in a while. Just that one little choice of Harry's has caused
Snape a whole lot of headache, frustration, and worry. Plus if Snape truly
is DDM!Snape (as I strongly suspect he is, though I know others disagree) he
could have kept a much closer guard on Harry under the guise of being his
House Master.  



Sherry now:

I'm not even going to respond to the whole Snape had to be a rotten jerk to
stay under cover, because obviously, I disagree.  I want to deal with the
point about the sorting hat.  The sorting hat

*did not*

offer to put Harry into Slytherin.  Contrary to what seems to have become
canon in a lot of fandom, the hat did not mention Slytherin till Harry said,
"not Slytherin".  We have no way of knowing where it would have put him or
if it was even considering Slytherin.  It's obvious to me that Harry has
qualities of all four houses, as I suppose most people do.  But my take on
that whole scene is that Harry was always meant to go to Gryffindor, but
when he did his not Slytherin bit, the hat decided to probe more and tempt
him a little.

And I don't think that had anything to do with poor Sevvy's misery.  The hat
put Harry in Gryffindor because that's where Harry belonged, not to make
Snape's life worse than ever.  Someday, Snapey needs to take responsibility
for his own miserable actions and stop picking on people who are weaker than
he is just for the fun of it.  To hate a child because of who that child's
father was, as I've said so many times before, is incredibly immature.  It's
about time he grew up for a change.  He is supposedly the adult after all,
but he sure doesn't seem to act like one.

Sherry