Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 186429

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" <montavilla47 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth@> wrote:
> > Pippin:
> > 
 
> Montavilla47:
> 
> May I offer an alternative interpretation?  We have only Dumbledore's and 
> Lupin's word that Snape carried a grudge against James "all those years" 
> because of  their school days/the Prank. In Dumbedore's case, we know he 
> was lying, and in Lupin's case, he could easily be mistaken.

jkoney:
Actually we have Snape's actions to show us that he held a grudge against a dead man. It starts with the celebrity comment the first day of class and ends with the filthy father comment at the end of HBP.

If he wasn't still holding a grudge why would he start on Harry the first day of class? Why would he bring up his father while they were fighting?


> Montavilla47
> So, I don't hold that Snape wastes his life by holding grudges
> against dead people (who are dead and thus couldn't care less
> what he's doing).  If his life is wasted, it's wasted because he's
> keeping to a promise he made when he was suicidally depressed.
> Or, alternately, that he inadvertently set a murderer on the 
> woman he loved, after losing her friendship due to his racist
> views.
> 
> But it wasn't about James at all.  Compared to his relationship
> with Lily and his mission towards Voldemort, the Marauders were
> very small potatoes.
> 
> Montavilla47
>

jkoney:
He didn't totally waste his life, but he also didn't do much with it until he was needed as a spy.

He was never able to reach out to his students and actually teach them, unless they were highly motivated. He had a decade before Harry arrived and it doesn't seem like he did much in that time period.

Once he was needed he fulfilled his duties. 

The grudge against the Marauders may have been small potato's but that doesn't mean it still didn't exist and influence his actions.