Snape, Snape, Snape--favorite moments (Re: Snape's involvement in the...)

[Dana]

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> Jen: I'm going to be mean here and snip out all your fine 
arguments because really, there's not much more I can add or 
subtract from everything that's been said on the thread.  And your 
thought above inspired me to try to start a "What I like about the 
character of Snape" thread. :)  I can be open-minded, I *can*.  I'm 
going to give some moments where I've enjoyed Snape as a character 
and admired the job Rowling has done in creating him:

Dana:

The only moment I liked about Snape is when Harry and Ron speculated 
about why Snape is absent from the feast at the beginning of CoS.

"Maybe he's ill!" said Ron hopefully.

"Maybe he's left," said Harry, "because he missed out on the Defence 
Against Dark Arts job again!"

"Or he might have been sacked!" said Ron enthusiastically. "I mean, 
everyone hates him -"

"Or maybe," said a very cold voice right behind them, "he's waiting 
to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train."

(Not a quote from the book directly so no page numbers)


I thought it would have made a funny scene for the movie and 
wondered why they did not use it. Of course I was still movie 
contaminated in my perception of Snape's character and liked him 
from that but that soon changed. ;o) 

After that not any scene in the book registered in my memory as a 
good Snape moment. I really thought that JKR was going for the 
humours but charismatic sarcasm with Snape but to me Snape used it 
to really hurt the people around him and not to cause humorous 
relieve or be funny to anyone but himself. So this is actually the 
only scene in which I could see the humour of it. 

Well I could mention numerous moments that I thought funny but they 
are negative for Snape so will restrain myself (Hospital wing and 
losing it, come to mind, just a precious Snape moment, just 
precious ;o))



JMHO