ince either Remus or Sirius says they thought Snape was jealous of James because of Quiddditch he might have been a good player and so a rival
Lupin says that in the Shrieking Shack, right before Snape takes off the Invisibilty Cloak. To me, it was quite obvious that he was editing himself like mad as he spun the story out for Harry, Ron and Hermione. It wasn't until OotP that I knew why -- Lupin was skittering away from telling Harry that "Snape hates you because your dad was a complete berk, Harry."
He gives Harry incredibly mixed-messages about it as well, iirc,
Frankly, Harry gets mixed messages from most of the teachers, and his godfather too. No wonder I think Harry is morally at sea -- he's never gotten firm rules from anyone in the Wizarding World.
[It is] probably very significant that Snape doesn't do this given that we know he's got real grudges against a lot of teachers.
Well, I'm not sure that Snape does have a lot of grudges against the teachers. Oh, he always goes after the DADA teacher, but no one else on staff has complained of him (and they all turned pretty fiercely on Lockhart and Umbridge). Frankly, since emotional damage doesn't seem to register as damage to most people in the Wizarding World (notice how sharp McGonagall gets when Neville Longbottom has failed again), *Snape* might not even hold a grudge against the teachers who didn't protect or help him when he was a student; he holds the humiliation and physical attacks against James et al., but I don't think he can actually comprehend emotional damage. He hasn't the mental machinery.
The bounds of professional respect seem to come naturally to him, even if it's sometimes strained when he doesn't respect the individual.
Whereas Remus Lupin and Sirius Black don't seem to know about that kind of respect. It makes me wonder what sort of positions they had between leaving school and the disastrous Halloween of 1981; what where they *doing* that they didn't acquire at least a gloss of professional manners?
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Date: 2004-09-09 11:41 am (UTC)Lupin says that in the Shrieking Shack, right before Snape takes off the Invisibilty Cloak. To me, it was quite obvious that he was editing himself like mad as he spun the story out for Harry, Ron and Hermione. It wasn't until OotP that I knew why -- Lupin was skittering away from telling Harry that "Snape hates you because your dad was a complete berk, Harry."
He gives Harry incredibly mixed-messages about it as well, iirc,
Frankly, Harry gets mixed messages from most of the teachers, and his godfather too. No wonder I think Harry is morally at sea -- he's never gotten firm rules from anyone in the Wizarding World.
[It is] probably very significant that Snape doesn't do this given that we know he's got real grudges against a lot of teachers.
Well, I'm not sure that Snape does have a lot of grudges against the teachers. Oh, he always goes after the DADA teacher, but no one else on staff has complained of him (and they all turned pretty fiercely on Lockhart and Umbridge). Frankly, since emotional damage doesn't seem to register as damage to most people in the Wizarding World (notice how sharp McGonagall gets when Neville Longbottom has failed again), *Snape* might not even hold a grudge against the teachers who didn't protect or help him when he was a student; he holds the humiliation and physical attacks against James et al., but I don't think he can actually comprehend emotional damage. He hasn't the mental machinery.
The bounds of professional respect seem to come naturally to him, even if it's sometimes strained when he doesn't respect the individual.
Whereas Remus Lupin and Sirius Black don't seem to know about that kind of respect. It makes me wonder what sort of positions they had between leaving school and the disastrous Halloween of 1981; what where they *doing* that they didn't acquire at least a gloss of professional manners?