[HPforGrownups] Re: Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 148938

Sydney:
>> You know, looking at those two lines... I'm back to Suicidal!Snape (or
>> Kamikaze!Snape if you prefer).  It hits every point.  It has bang.  It
>> has irony.  It wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel.  It has
>> a lot of potential energy to drive cool scenes.  It can generate
>> motion from Harry.  It can connect in interesting ways to other
>> Unsolved Snape Mysteries like why Dumbledore trusts him so much and
>> ties into the remorse thing.  And, pace Lupinlore, it's not
>> excessively heroic.  Ladies and Gentlemen-- THE WINNNEEEER!
>>
>
> :-), it certainly isn't excessively heroic.  Having said that, Suicidal!
> Snape seems to be extraordinarily incompetent when it comes to getting
> what he wants.  He's wanted to kill himself for almost twenty years and
> STILL hasn't managed it?  Oh yes, he is determined to kill himself IN A
> PARTICULAR WAY, and only THAT WAY will do.  May I introduce my old
> friend, IrrationalObsession!Snape.

Magpie:
Actually, I don't think that's an obsession.  Sydney's alternate name of 
"Kamikaze" Snape makes all the difference.  A regular suicide may be someone 
who feels sorry for himself and hangs himself in despair hoping everyone 
will be sorry now.  But I think a different mindset goes into being a 
kamikaze (or a terrorist bomber).  That's someone wanting to die for a 
cause--or as a final gesture to the enemy.

Merope would be suicidal, while Regulus was perhaps more of a kamikaze. 
Snape strikes me as believable as the latter rather than the former.

-m