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

[montavilla47]

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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:

Montavilla47:

My favorite Snape moments:

1) The Hospital Wing scene in GoF.  This is the moment that turned me 
not only into a Snape fan, but a rabid HP fan as well.  It starts with Snape 
showing that Dark Mark to Fudge, but there's also the forced handshake, 
and Snape's black glittery eyes as he goes off to what seems his inevitable 
doom.

(OT:  This was the moment that kicked the series from a schoolboy 
tale into something big.  I was disappointed the first time I read OotP,
mainly because I expected that we'd move more out into the WW.  Instead,
we stayed claustraphobically  in 12 Grimauld Place and Hogwarts for
almost the entire book!)

2) The Hospital Wing scene in PoA.  It's so over the top that Snape seems
to have charged in from straight from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."  What 
a contrast to Snape's normal controlled behavior!   I can't help 
sharing Dumbledore's amusement.

3) The Occlumency lessons.  I could read those pages over and over again,
especially the first lesson.  I think both of them are making as hard as 
they can to work together, but there's so little understanding between 
them!  Harry never seems to read Snape correctly and completely misses
that he's being complemented.  And Snape has so many preconceptions
about Harry that he even begin to reach him.

4) Snape kicking Gilderoy Lockhart's butt in the Dueling Club.  Go Snape!

5) Snape kicking Harry's butt in the post-tower flight.  Take that, Chosen
One!

6) Snape healing Draco in the bathroom.  What an amazing and unexpected
image.  I keep thinking of the Pieta when I read about that passage.

7) The First Potions lesson.  It immediately makes Potions seem like the 
most interesting class at Hogwarts, doesn't it?  That, despite the fact 
that the lessons are actually duller to describe than Transfiguration with
the tea cups trying to escape, or CoMC with the innerestin' critters.

Last but far from least:

8) Snape questioning Harry about the Potions book.  "I know what a 
nickname is!"

Montavilla47