The Unloved Son (was Re: Could I be wrong about Snape being evil?)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 156658

> Sherry now:
> <SNIP>
If Snape is
> so emotionally mature, he should be able to realize that Harry is 
not James,
> and that Harry has no more control over who his parents were than 
does
> Snape.  Even in the horrid occlumency lessons, Snape got a glimpse 
of
> Harry's childhood, but this did not seem to cause him to begin to 
rethink
> his attitudes toward Harry.  Yet when Harry saw the pensieve 
memory, he did
> feel compassion for the young Severus.  Who's more emotionally 
mature now?
> Maybe, due to his spying role, for whoever is really his master, 
he can keep
> his emotions in check.  He must or die.  But when he lets them 
out, he sure
> lets them out and blows everything to pieces with them.  Speaking
> figuratively, of course.  But that scene in the shrieking shack in 
POA,
> followed by the hospital wing scene was one of the biggest out and 
out
> temper tantrums I've ever read, especially coming from a 
supposedly mature
> man.


Alla:

Well, I agree with every word of your post of course. **Emotionally 
mature** Snape to me is an oxymoron statement ( to make sure that I 
got the term correct I am talking about self contradictory 
statement), but I had been thinking about 
the argument that Snape must be emotionally mature since he is a 
spy, since I had seen that one several times.

Well, to me it is easily reconcillable - as in Snape may keep his 
emotions in check as long the trigger for these emotions is not 
anybody with last name **Potter**, we don't know that in the course 
of his spying career he has to deal with Potters, no?

But I am also wondering if we know about anything during the course 
of his spying career where Snape indeed has to have his emotions in 
check?

I am talking not in general about him being a spy, but about 
particular episodes where Snape has to hide his emotions.

I guess Spinner End would count, IF he was playing games there, but 
besides that? Hmmmm, unlikely as it sounds maybe Snape did not 
encounter the real trigger for his emotions run amok in his spying 
career yet? Speculating here of course.

But IMO that he cannot hold on to sanity when he hears name *Potter* 
sounds more likely.

JMO,

Alla