Snape's the Rescuer - Really?/Justice to Snape

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 170839

lizzyben04:

> Yes, Snape is a snarky sarcastic bastard, but he also 
> seems devoted to protecting & healing people in need. 
> In this, Snape reminds me a bit of "House, MD," or Dr. 
> Cox from Scrubs.

houyhnhnm:

He makes me think a little of Florence Nightengale 
(mutatis mutandis), the founder of the modern profession 
of nursing, whose achievements as an activist in 
sanitation were a major turning point in the history 
of health care. Celebrated in popular sentimental 
imagination as The Lady With the Lamp, in actuality 
she was a hard headed administrator, an ambitious and 
sometimes abrasive woman who drove other people 
ruthlessly and didn't suffer fools gladly.

Some quotes:

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. 
Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more 
selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."

"There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain"

Sound like anyone we know?  Which house do you think 
she would have been sorted into?