[HPforGrownups] Re: Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 186516

> > > PoA (speaker is Snape):
> > > "Like father, like son, Potter! I have just saved your neck; you 
> > > should be thanking me on bended knee! You would have been well served 
> > > if he'd killed you! You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to 
> > > believe you might be mistaken in Black -- now get out of the way, or I 
> > > will make you. GET OUT OF THE WAY, POTTER!"

Pippin:
As the someone in question, I want to make it clear that I didn't mean 
Snape's whole life was a waste, just that the waste was life long. And I 
also don't think the grudge was just about the prank, or James's schoolboy 
arrogance.

It was about  James's arrogance in refusing to believe that someone close to 
him had turned traitor and was keeping the Dark Lord informed of his and 
Lily's movements.

Shelley:
But, was James wrong? Not entirely. He believed in Sirius, and in Lupin. The 
only one of his "friends" that he was wrong about was Peter.

But, notice that when Snape says these words, he is also incorrect, in that 
he believes the traitor is Sirius, and that wrongly faults James for 
believing in Sirius. In reality, James was correct in believing in Sirius, 
as Harry was doing at the moment of this quote. Snape's arrogance comes from 
the fault that he doesn't acknowledge he doesn't have all the pieces of the 
puzzle. But, I have noticed that people who hold a grudge are often blinded 
to any facts that would alleviate or diminish that grudge. Snape's refusal 
to see the truth here is mostly out of his need to KEEP HATING James (which 
I think is primarily for "stealing his girl". The grudge, the prank, is just 
a sidetrack early in the story to keep us from figuring out too early on 
that Snape had Lilly-lust.) I agree the waste was life-long, and on that 
point, it's a shame that Snape never got over his Lilly obsession, or that 
he never accepted truly his responsibility for killing her and the ones she 
loved. Had he been more truthful to himself, he would have been easy to see 
the truth about other events too (such as Peter's role).