FINALLY!! Book 7 explains Snape & Neville!

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 174315

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "npod4291" <npod4291 at ...> wrote:
>

> Snape heard the first part of the prophecy, which as we all know, 
> could have meant to be either Harry or Neville.  Snape tells 
> Voldemort, who assumes that the prophecy refers to Harry, and ends 
> up killing Snape's love, Lily.  Now, Snape is responsible for his 
> love's death.  Or is he?  This is where Neville comes in.  If 
> Neville had been the one that Voldemort went after, then not only 
> would Lily have survived, but Snape himself would not have to devote 
> his life trying to protect his most hated enemy's son.  I think that 
> he blames (incorrectly blames, but blames nonetheless) Neville for 
> the situation of his life, the danger he must put himself in, and 
> the death of his love, almost like a "survivor's guilt" type thing, 
> but projecting in on someone else.
> 
> Nate, who begs that you not laugh at me TOO hard for possibly being 
> the last to come to this conclusion
>

Prep0strus:

Nah, it's new to me, and I like the thought... but I'm not sure it's
all that neat and tidy.  It aalways seemed to me Snape was ripping
into Neville for being less than competant... which, let's face it, he
was.  I didn't get the impression that Snape was all about helping
other students who were having difficulties - granted, we saw him w/
the hated griffindors and fellow slytherins - maybe we need a glance
into the room when the other two houses were there, but snape didn't
exactly seem beloved by anyone other than draco.

i like the idea that snape put it all together with neville - he's
certainly smart enough and invested enough to do that.  but i think he
would've treated neville just as badly simply for being slower,
weaker, and a griffindor.

ron and hermione i guess got the bad treatment from snape for being
harry's friends if we follow the 'everything mean snape did snape did
for a good reason' theory. but nowhere is it implied that our little
class of griffindors were the only ones who had a tough time in
snape's class.

~Prep0strus (Adam)