The snapshots like the pensieves scenes or Snape's memories (ex: crying child, fighting parents, alone in bedroom) are only foreshadow clues to the whole picture. There're many stuffs we can't know about Snape yet because they're crucial to the main plot, that's why they've only been hinted and revealed (slowly) book by book.
Quite possibly, yeah, they are! I hope so. It does seem hard to imagine we won't get it--like the elephant in the room there.
Snape didn't act his usual "how dare you arrogant brat, just like your father, 50 points from Gryfindor" to Harry at all. He stared at Harry first (legilimency?), then said "Put that wand away" and only took 10 points. Well it's only my interpretation of course.
Ooh, that's interesting! And I think you're right these are all hints that something's going on with Snape--ITA Snape and Draco are two totally different characters in that way. Snape started out disliking Harry because of James, but I agree their relationship has become far more personal over the years. Certainly Harry learned more about Snape, if only bit by bit, and that in turn hints that Snape is doing the same thing. My point, really, about Snape is just that so far we don't have the same kind of insight into him that we have into characters who talk to Harry about themselves because, of course, he doesn't talk to Harry about himself!
But still he's leagues ahead of Draco on that score after revelations like the Prank and the Pensieve. We're still encouraged, I think, to think about Snape in that way when we're not with Malfoy, which does kind of interest me given the backstory with the Marauders and where that kind of hatred led. But I agree that despite us not having this information yet it does seem to exist somewhere, where it really doesn't seem to exist with Malfoy.
Which I think is why it's at least easier to speculate about Snape as a whole character in ways I don't think you can with Malfoy. We have, after all, seen Snape interact with different types of people a few times, in ways we really don't with any other Slytherin.
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Date: 2004-09-14 06:37 am (UTC)Quite possibly, yeah, they are! I hope so. It does seem hard to imagine we won't get it--like the elephant in the room there.
Snape didn't act his usual "how dare you arrogant brat, just like your father, 50 points from Gryfindor" to Harry at all. He stared at Harry first (legilimency?), then said "Put that wand away" and only took 10 points. Well it's only my interpretation of course.
Ooh, that's interesting! And I think you're right these are all hints that something's going on with Snape--ITA Snape and Draco are two totally different characters in that way. Snape started out disliking Harry because of James, but I agree their relationship has become far more personal over the years. Certainly Harry learned more about Snape, if only bit by bit, and that in turn hints that Snape is doing the same thing. My point, really, about Snape is just that so far we don't have the same kind of insight into him that we have into characters who talk to Harry about themselves because, of course, he doesn't talk to Harry about himself!
But still he's leagues ahead of Draco on that score after revelations like the Prank and the Pensieve. We're still encouraged, I think, to think about Snape in that way when we're not with Malfoy, which does kind of interest me given the backstory with the Marauders and where that kind of hatred led. But I agree that despite us not having this information yet it does seem to exist somewhere, where it really doesn't seem to exist with Malfoy.
Which I think is why it's at least easier to speculate about Snape as a whole character in ways I don't think you can with Malfoy. We have, after all, seen Snape interact with different types of people a few times, in ways we really don't with any other Slytherin.