Snape and Harry and expulsion LONG

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> Potioncat
> Well, I'm not sure how I wandered into this and LOL, I realised you had found a way to make Snape less evil in your mind, and I came along and argued against it. What was I thinking?

Alla:

Tee heee, I know I find it hilarious myself. Here I am in good faith trying to figure out that maybe Snape is indeed less of a sadist than I keep thinking of him and as long as Potter brat maybe safe, he would love to never ever see him again in his life, but I got myself basically straightened out, lol. Really, it is much easier for me, okay he wants to keep Harry close to his heart :-). 

However, however, seriously speaking, I still feel that canon Snape does not lie. Oh he lies by omission a plenty, but IMO if he says something it is usually a truth or he believes it to be a truth. I mean, again, obviously death of Dumbledore is a case at point, where incomplete information lead some of us (me lol) on a wrong path, but all the *incomplete information" that we heard, was correct, was it not?

What Hagrid heard was correct - Snape did not want to do it, etc, etc.

So, honestly I am still wondering, that is a logical problem for me, not emotional reading one, as I said, for Snape as sadist I think he should want Harry near by, not far away.


Potioncat:
> Just as a clarification, I took your idea of Snape foregoing the pleasure of torturing of Harry as fitting definition 1 (not having seen the definitions at the time and asking if that was your intent. I see it wasn't.

Alla:

Right, no, slash is fun, but no :-)


Potioncat: 
> Of those 3, I'd put Snape in number 3. But while he is mean, and while cruel could be used, I wouldn't use extreme cruelty to describe his methods, nor I do think he does it to derive pleasure.
> jmo
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Alla:

For me it is two and three, but I just want to clarify, when I say pleasure, not only I do not mean sexual pleasure, I do not mean fun either, it is more like satisfaction I guess? I feel that he is doing to Harry what he would have like done to James in school and since he cannot hurt James in his grave, he is doing it vicariously through his son.

JMO,

Alla