Choices/Snape as abuser, SKIP if not interested WAS :Re: CHAPTER

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jean Lamb" <tlambs1138 at ...> wrote:
>
> This is how _I_ see Snape. 
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>> Alla, if you honestly think that Snape would abuse a 16 year old child, then
> I have no more to say on the subject, because you aren't going to listen to
> anything anybody says about him in a positive way anyway. You hate him more
> than you do Voldemort or anybody else, and I'm not entirely sure why. 
>  
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Alla:

Just to clarify you meant 16 months old child, right? Because I think that Snape abusing sixteen year old teenager is canon fact (IMO of course).

So, yes, as I said I of course cannot prove it, but I do not think that based on Snape's behavior towards eleven year old Harry it will be such a big stretch that he will abuse a baby. I honestly think it is a possibility. Basically nowhere in canon I see Snape offering Harry a shred of kindness and I do not see why it will be different when he was younger.

Snape after all knew that he condemns to death a couple with the baby (yes, I know, unknown couple with the baby), and here Snape would just abuse Harry. I think canon is clear that Snape wanted Harry alive, it is just I think while he felt compelled to keep the promise, he wanted to humiliate and hurt alive Harry as much as he could, miserable git IMO.


As to why I hate Snape, I think I stated some of the reasons in this thread and there are plenty more in my old posts.

Am I going to listen to anything positive about him? Of course I will, after all why I would still participate in this topic after all these years if I did not enjoy reading other side's arguments, but did I find the arguments justifying Snape's behavior towards Harry to be convincing? No, not at all. Who knows, maybe one day.

Whatever positive things canon had to say about Snape I am of course forced to acknowledge, like his service against Voldemort.

But that to me does not change how he behaved with Harry and Neville.

Oh and do I hate him more than any other character? Yes, although Dumbledore after book 7 comes pretty darn close.

I know of course that I am supposed to hate Voldemort more and on the intellectual level of reading I do that, but I find that with Snape she succeeded significantly more in portraying low level every day villain (who is I know on the right side), so sure I think I hate Snape more than Voldemort, even in real life that would be different of course.

JMO,

Alla