Nitwit? - Remus John Lupin

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 168079

houyhnhnm:
> "My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus," said 
> Dumbledore quietly, in PoA. Some have taken this to mean 
> that DD remembers some details of the Prank that Snape 
> would prefer to forget.  But it also suggests to me the 
> possibility that Dumbledore really does feel guilty for 
> what happened to Snape twenty-some years before and that 
> Snape is in the habit of throwing it up to him.  Their 
> relationship has always struck me as having the feel of a 
> dysfunctional parent-child relationship, one in which 
> the parent really was guilty of neglect or mistreatment 
> and knows it, but where the child, as an adult, cannot let it go.

Dana:
Sorry to bud in but you know what I really don't get, why do people 
feel that Snape's supposed bad childhood would excuse his actions in 
to adulthood? The guy is not the only one that had it bad and he 
should have built some character because if it, instead of acting it 
out on others. 

Lupin had to overcome a great deal more then Snape ever had to deal 
with but we don't see him bullying little defenseless children or try 
to have someone's soul sucked out, because Greyback destroyed his 
chances for a normal life. 

Sirius might have acted as an arrogant snob when he was in school but 
we know by the looks of his mother's portray, the grim look of GP and 
him even deciding to run away at age 16, that his home life was 
anything but a breeze and he then spends most of his adult life, in 
the most depressing place one could imagine while actually being 
innocent but oh no, dear sweet Snape is so misunderstood and was 
humiliated so deeply because he was some kid's Boggert and then this 
Boggert!Snape was dressed in woman's cloths? The outrage, how could 
they do that to this poor man (well maybe because he was the cause of 
this kid's fear in the first place). 

And what does this misunderstood hero do? He bullies the kid even 
further and fiercer then before and when he isn't able to punish the 
insulter, in what he considers an appropriate way, he outs him, 
ruining his already hard life even further. No, really we should have 
some compassion for Snape because maybe his father hit his mother 
(and this all just from one image of a man shouting at a woman while 
not even knowing it indeed was his father at all)

And of course let's not forget him not getting over his hatred for 
James and him allowing himself to take it out on the man's son and 
even worse, when the kid loses the one person he was more closely 
connected with then anybody else in his short life, he rubs it in by 
having the kid re-write their detention cards but for some reason 
everybody insulting or humiliated Snape is condemned because the guy 
had such a bad childhood and was hung by his feet a couple of times. 

If I am not mistaken Snape seemed to be the only one that always gets 
away with everything, even murder while he is the only one behaving 
in such a despicable way, it is no wonder, people do not know where 
his loyalties lie. 

Of course just my very humble opinion.  

Dana