OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 156996


> 
> 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
>
wynnleaf
While it's possible that you're correct, I have also seen very 
similar behavior play out in real life between fathers and sons -- 
where the father understands his son quite thoroughly and the son 
knows it.  The father teases him gently, the son gets resentful 
about it and wants to push back, and the father gently, but firmly 
won't let him get away with pushing back too hard -- the father 
basically reminding the son that he's getting too upset about a 
situation.  I've seen that play out often among both family and 
friends, between fathers and sons who actually care about each other 
quite a lot.  

Just as Dumbledore knows Snape very well, Snape also knows 
Dumbledore.  They've worked together now for many years.  Remember, 
if Snape is DDM, then he's been willing to go through practically 
any degree of danger on Dumbledore's word.  That doesn't sound to me 
like someone who dislikes Dumbledore.  

Yes, I think Dumbledore may tease Snape sometimes a little too 
much.  But I think that Snape's resentment of it is not too great, 
even if he's angry at the time.

wynnleaf