Even later in the memories, when Dumbledore suggests that Snape has come to care for Harry qua Harry, Snape reacts indignantly to that, producing the doe Patronus to remind Dumbledore that it's still really All About Lily.
IDK what the readers are meant to make of that. Like you, I read it as a disturbing sign that Snape is so emotionally stunted, he still can't feel anything for any human being except this one woman who's been dead for sixteen years. But Dumbledore (the old crocodile) tears up like it's the most moving, romantic thing since Casablanca. Are we supposed to take our cue from him? Yay the redemptive power of a lifelong obsession love?
(Personally, I fanwank that he had come to care a little about Harry but was deep in denial, but that's because I used to find Snape interesting and would like to believe that he wasn't quite as one-dimensional as the scene suggests.)
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Re: part I
Date: 2007-07-26 07:05 am (UTC)IDK what the readers are meant to make of that. Like you, I read it as a disturbing sign that Snape is so emotionally stunted, he still can't feel anything for any human being except this one woman who's been dead for sixteen years. But Dumbledore (the old crocodile) tears up like it's the most moving, romantic thing since Casablanca. Are we supposed to take our cue from him? Yay the redemptive power of a lifelong
obsessionlove?(Personally, I fanwank that he had come to care a little about Harry but was deep in denial, but that's because I used to find Snape interesting and would like to believe that he wasn't quite as one-dimensional as the scene suggests.)
-L