House v Snape was Snape as Neville's teacher / lots of House

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> colebiancardi:
> 
> anyone ever watch House?  Hugh Laurie's character is an embittered,
> sarcastic man who does not have a bed-side manner, but his passion 
is
> to find out what disease the patients have.  He doesn't really care
> about the patients, but he does care about how to save them. 
> Personally, if I had a weird illness, I would want House as my 
doctor,
> not Florence Nightingale <bg>
> 
> back to the topic, that is how I view Snape.  His passion is to find
> the cure, if you will, by learning what causes the curse and 
creating
> a potion for it.  He may not be a healer (I really don't think that
> word describes Snape) but he is a person who creates cures or 
expands
> on existing cures to make them better (RE: Lupin, who stated that
> there weren't that many who would make the Wolfsbane potion and that
> Snape's potion gave him relief on a monthly basis)
> 
> Also, another key to Snape's brilliance as a "healer" (again, need a
> better word here), is the fact that Dumbledore, several times in 
HBP,
> refers to Snape - "and for Professor Snape's timely action when I
> returned to Hogwarts, desperately injured, I might not have lived to
> tell the tale" HBP UK ed, p 471 - not to mention the Katie Bell
> incidient and when Dumbledore insists that Harry get Professor Snape
> after the cave trip
> 
> It isn't that Snape and Madam Pomfrey don't have similar jobs;
> instead, I view Madam Pomfrey as a general practictor, whereas Snape
> is a specialist in curing those curses/illnesses that no one else
> wants to or can touch.  This should not and does not, IMHO, discount
> Poppy as a healer, nor should does it discount Snape's talent 
either.
>  Snape doesn't deal with Hermione's teeth because that isn't 
something
> he normally may deal with - Madam Pomfrey is the better person for
> Hermione to go to.  
> 

Alla:

Awwww, House, the other piece in my puzzle of why I hate Snape, when 
I usually like characters like him.

Now, I just want to talk about House and Snape in general, but I do 
agree with you that Snape cannot be called a healer, but is likely to 
be the person who finds cures. The thing is, IMO we don't even know 
that he can be called that.

Sure, he certainly knows cures for many dark curses, but while in 
House's situation we IMO **see** that House just as Holmes interested 
in solving the puzzle, hehe, interesting in figuring out the cure 
just for the sake of it, Snape IMO may not have even been interested 
in that, but simply have self serving purposes in knowing the cures.

OR you can be right of course and he is interested in solving the 
puzzle, finding the cure just as House does.

But it is interesting to me, because I certainly agree that House, 
attitude wise has lots and lots in common with Snape, or so it seems 
to be.

So, why again do I like him and hate Snape?

I mean, I want to say because he does not blow off at kids, House 
that is, but he certainly does, so that's not it.

I actually started out hating House as well – not because he was 
sarcastic, but because he certainly seemed to care less about 
**life** of person who was not his patient.

The first episode I watched was about two gay girls, where House had 
no gripes to get a transplant from one of them, even knowing that it 
could be life threatening and conceiving the information that other 
girl planned to leave her.

So, hated him, but funnily that hatred really did not last for more 
than couple of episodes.

And I think I can figure out the differences for me now.

I think that even though House does not seem to care for emotional 
well being of his patients and certainly has plenty of harsh words 
for them, we **had** been shown that no matter how hard he tries to 
show  the world to the contrary, he **does** care at least a little 
bit.

I am yet to see it with Snape. For example, no matter how often House 
belittles his team of youngsters, young doctors I mean, it was 
**enough** for me when he told Cameron once ** I am proud of you**.

So, then when he dishes out the words in other 99%, I know that he 
can and does feel differently sometimes.

Truly, it would have worked wonders for me with Snape, if he while 
continuing belittling Neville or Harry, **once** just once told 
either of them, or both – job well done.

What I am trying to say is that all that I see in Snape is dark, 
black hatred. I see House as much more multilayered character.

I think it is also very important for me that I know that House loved 
the person, I know that he is capable of that feeling, I can see him 
capable of friendship too. Something, which I am yet to see of Snape. 
I mean I know he is friendly with Malfoy family, I am just wondering 
if somebody more decent feels something positive towards him.

I guess, what I am trying to say is that House for me wins hands down 
as more sympathetic character.

Ah, and of course to me House has a **very** good excuse for his bad 
manners, he is in constant, real, not imaginary pain, while Snape as 
far as I know is not.

JMO,

Alla