[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape-one of a kind (was Re: Why Snape must ultimately be a hero)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 152002

"Lazy Days": 
Can anyone think of a character who is thought to be so evil, yet so
tortured?  The only one I can think of is Edgar, from King Lear, after his
name is besmirched by Edmund, his brother. Even then, the level of internal
strife is nowhere near Snape's...



Sherry now:

Can you show me any canon to support the idea that Snape is tortured inside?
More than any other figure in literature?  I don't mean, just your opinion,
as it is shared by many in this group.  But anywhere that we see the
workings of his mind and heart and know he is tortured inside.  We never see
Snape inside.  We never get into his head.  Personally, I see a proud, cruel
man, who revels in his cruelty.  not tortured at all.


lazy Days
Also, the only proof that we have with Snape and the DADA position is that
Dumbledore has said on several occasions that Snape wants it and also that
Percy told Harry at his first-year feast...



Sherry now:
We also have Dumbledore's belief, the scene we saw in the Pensieve in HBP
and Dumbledore believing Riddle cursed the position at the time he applied
for the DADA position.  Not proof, I grant you, but more than Percy's word.
Unfortunately, I don't have my braille books, so I can't quote the relevant
chapter and text.  

Sherry