HBP!Snape (was Re: ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey? (WAS: DDM!Snape the definition)

[TK Kenyon]

No: HPFGUIDX 162554

Hi All,

Snape is just such a fascinating character b/c he isn't GOOD or EVIL 
but shades of grey, many shades of grey. Even if he is DD's man (bone 
of contention, there,) he's still not a nice human being. 

I was listening to the movie version of PoA last night as I was 
quilting a baby quilt for a friend (baby is now 2 days old, I have to 
finish that puppy,) and I was struck by how Alan Rickman said the line 
(in the Shrieking Shack, pointing his wand at SB,) "Give me a reason 
to do *it* and I swear I will." (Am PoA p359) "It" was not defined. 
The alternative to "it" was dragging SB back to the castle for the 
dementors' kiss, so "it" has to be very bad, like AK. (As we all know, 
PoA was before we learned about AK in GoF, from Crouch!Moody and the 
spider example in DADA.) 

Would Snape have killed SB a/o Lupin? He seems to need an *additional* 
reason to kill either of them, but he desperately wants to as it 
stands. The desire to *kill* them is there. Is that merely the result 
of schoolyard taunting? Or more? 

Harry assumes that it is schoolyard taunting. "JUST BECAUSE THEY MADE 
A FOOL OF YOU AT SCHOOL...." (P361), etc. However, doesn't JKR usually 
put a red herring in someone else's mouth? 

I hope this is resolved in Book 7. And I wish we knew the real name 
for Harry Potter & the Toenail of Ickledork. 

TK Kenyon

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
> And now, to compare apples to oranges, because it involves over 
> acting, in TMTMNBN: Snape bursts into the Shreiking Shack to 
confront 
> Lupin and Black and he comes out like an actor on stage. I recall 
> noticing it the very first time. But you know, that's not how 
Rickman 
> generally acts.
> 
> MAGIC DISHWASHER, anyone?
> 
> Oh, please don't ask me, I couldn't begin to explain MAGIC 
DISHWASHER 
> but it concerns Snape pretending a bit and an intentional freeing of 
> Pettigrew.
>