Snape and Harry and expulsion LONG

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 188866


Potioncat:
Uh, so you're saying that Harry is Snape's boy toy?:

Alla:
Well, depends on what meaning you put in "Boy toy" ;). I do not think Snape  was taking him to bed, no (that's what boy toy means to me and I could be wrong).

But if your meaning of "boy toy" is a kid and later a teenager whose sufferings Snape is enjoying, yes, definitely, I guess I could call Harry Snape's boy toy then.

Potioncat:
That expelling Harry would
be something of a sacrifice for Snape and therefore noble?

Alla:

If he knows that Harry would be safe, yes, in a sense I think so, that would be Snape controlling his darker impulses to make Harry suffer.

Potioncat:
I don't believe that Snape enjoys Harry's presence at all and would be glad to
avoid him entirely. 

Alla:
See, you guys are funny. (you and Montavilla, I mean, since she expressed the similar thought). So now Snape indeed would have wanted Harry out of sight if it could have been done safely? How is it different from what I had been arguing all along? That Snape does not want Harry dead, but he would have loved to get out of his promise if he knew that somebody else (or something else for all I care) Could you please elaborate on how is it different from my position?

But you know, all of you guys had been doing such a good job in convincing me that Snape does not want Harry expelled, that I am almost convinced.  

Potioncat:
If he gets any satisfaction out of Harry's discomfort, it's
the same that we get out of seeing a bad guy suffer. (So like you feel when
Snape is discomforted; or like I feel when Nagini gets killed.)


Alla:

Aren't you making my point here? If you are saying that Snape considers **Harry** a bad guy here and thus gets a satisfaction of his sufferings (I know you said discomfort, but in my book it is so much more than that), that"s pretty perverse by itself in my opinion. Am I supposed to view him as less sadistic because he thinks that boy whom he had a hand in depriving of happy childhood and tormented through school is a bad guy??? That's some nerve dear Severus have had then.

JMO,

Alla