It's interesting for me to think that that might drive some of his confrontations with Sirius as well. Sirius may have left his family behind and said good riddance, but would he really like the idea of Snape getting a spot in it?
That does give all kinds of new meaning to Sirius' comment in the kitchen about being "his house", doesn't it? And it can work both ways, as far as driving confrontation goes. Snape, who already thinks Sirius to be arrogant (rightly so, by some indications), might have thought it the height of arrogance for someone who grew up with everything to throw it so blithely away.
Sirius may leave his family and forego his inheritance, but he still had all the good things that Snape didn't. I don't mean just the material stuff (which Snape lacked, and Sirius took for granted to the point of considering it unimportant). There are also less tangible things like the opportunities for work, advancement, whatever, that are Sirius' for the taking, by virtue of his being a pureblood and a Black.
Snape, work as hard as he might, would have still been limited, being a half-blood of no known name. Slughorn is a good case in point - he would have liked to have had the "set" of both Black boys, but apparently showed no such interest in Snape (his ability in potions notwithstanding). And, as unfair as Snape can be to his own students, he still seems to keenly feel any unfairness directed at him.
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Date: 2005-09-08 02:49 am (UTC)That does give all kinds of new meaning to Sirius' comment in the kitchen about being "his house", doesn't it? And it can work both ways, as far as driving confrontation goes. Snape, who already thinks Sirius to be arrogant (rightly so, by some indications), might have thought it the height of arrogance for someone who grew up with everything to throw it so blithely away.
Sirius may leave his family and forego his inheritance, but he still had all the good things that Snape didn't. I don't mean just the material stuff (which Snape lacked, and Sirius took for granted to the point of considering it unimportant). There are also less tangible things like the opportunities for work, advancement, whatever, that are Sirius' for the taking, by virtue of his being a pureblood and a Black.
Snape, work as hard as he might, would have still been limited, being a half-blood of no known name. Slughorn is a good case in point - he would have liked to have had the "set" of both Black boys, but apparently showed no such interest in Snape (his ability in potions notwithstanding). And, as unfair as Snape can be to his own students, he still seems to keenly feel any unfairness directed at him.