Snape's DADA lesson WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: HBP9, The Half-Blood Prince

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 147741

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IreneMikhlin <irene_mikhlin at ...> 
wrote:

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> I really doubt it. Yes, Snape is insecure in many ways (whom does 
> Dumbledore love more: me or Harry? :-)) but surely he knows that in a 
> real fight situation Harry is nowhere near to being a match for him, 
> as the very same book demonstrates. The supposed desire to get even 
> does not work for me psychologically.

Maybe I'm missing the point, but perhaps the fact that Harry *isn't* up 
to taking him on is precisely what drives some of this.  If we assume 
that Snape is somewhat insecure vis a vis Dumbledore and Harry (which 
seems an argument with legs), then he might be displacing some of that 
into an area where he can indulge in it freely and glory in his own 
overt and actual superiority.  That's at least one way I can make sense 
out of Snape's perpetual tendency to lord it over children and indulge 
in being unfair to them.  He can't do it in other areas of frustration 
and to other people (such as most of the other Professors, who would 
remember him as a snot-nosed kid; no way to be authoritative there), so 
hey! take it out on an available target whenever a glimmer of an 
opportunity shows itself.  Possible reading.

-Nora now invisions herself with a notebook and a couch, to her horror