[HPforGrownups] Re: OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 156995


>colebiancardi:  hmmmm, I see your point, but....DD knows Snape -
>has known him since he was a little boy, watched him grow up to be a
>man and knows Snape's faults and quirks.  I think DD teases Snape,
>because he knows that Snape has chosen to live his life in an unhappy
>manner and that he is trying to Snape to lighten up, to not dwell on
>the small stuff.  I think DD likes Snape, but he also knows what
>buttons to push - not that he pushes too many of them with Snape.

>McG and Flitwick have never come out "strong" in their opinions to DD
>like Snape has.  Nor are they "hardliners" like Snape - McG puts on a
>good show, but she is fair.  Flitwick is a pushover.  Maybe that is why
>DD never tweaks them like he does Snape.


PJ:
Yes, that's all true.  However, somehow I don't think Snape will "lighten 
up" if he feels he is being laughed at and made a fool of (it would actually 
have the opposite effect!) and Dumbledore is smart enough to realize this.

Reading the scene in PoA where Snape goes off the deep end, it seems like 
Dumbledore is purposely goading him by asking him if he honestly thought 
Harry could be in two places at once.  And then once Snape loses control 
Dumbledore is shown to be *amused* by Snape's distress!  "Snape stood there, 
seething, staring from Fudge, who looked thoroughly shocked at his behavior, 
to Dumbledore, whose eyes were twinkling behind his glasses."  (PoA pg 420 
Scholastic)

Before that we have Snape talking to Dumbledore in the Great Hall after the 
fat lady was attacked.  Dumbledore brushes Snape's concerns aside with 
"something like a warning in his voice".  After that we have the passage 
"Snape stood for a moment, watching the headmaster with an expression of 
deep resentment on his face, then he too left".  (PoA pg 166 Scholastic)

That's just one book but there are many more passages in the canon to 
suggest that Dumbledore and Snape aren't at all on friendly terms.   In PoA 
we have an expression of deep resentment which escalates in HBP to "Snape 
gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched 
in the harsh lines of his face" (HBP pg 395 Scholastic)

No, I don't think they're teasing at all......

PJ