Snape's Psychology: WAS: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 187432

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> Alla:
> <SNIP>
> > Petunia after all his rival for being Lily's playmate, etc. I do not like
> Petunia, never did for her behavior to Harry, but I do see her as victim here.
> 
> Montavilla47:
> <HUGE SNIP>
> Perhaps you would be less sympathetic if she were being eaten
> by a snake? Or if the thing hitting her on the head were a glass
> of mead?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Somehow I miss your point here. Smiley seems to indicate irony and/or sarcasm, but I really cannot figure it out. Could you help me?
> 

Montavilla47:

I was trying to indicate a teasing point, rather than irony or
sarcasm.  I, too, think that Petunia is a victim at this moment 
and, no matter how insulting she was being, she certainly didn't
deserve to have a branch dropped on her head.

The other instances I brought up were, in one case, when Snape
was being killed--something you have noted with satisfaction in
the past.  The second was another time when Petunia was being 
hit in the head--only this time it was a glass of mead and not
a tree branch.  (I don't recall if you were perturbed at that or not.)

I would think that if you are sympathetic with Petunia in the 
branch situation, it would follow logically that you'd be 
sympathetic with both Snape in the snake situation and 
Petunia when she was being in the head repeated with a 
hard glass object.

But I don't think these things do follow logically.  So, while
I was teasing you, I didn't want it to rise to the level of a 
serious argument.  

Hence the smily wink face.