JKR showing that her character Severus Snape has things we the readers don't like. Of course, even the diehard Snape fan can admit he's an asshole/jerk but there are obviously other qualities that seem admirable. Where anyone would value that kind of trait or habit, etc.
It just bothers me that becasue it's Sirius and James it seems to be glossed over. Who the hell wouldn't be bitter and resentful given those life situations Severus suffers?
And throught everything Snape became loyal or even more loyal than anyone else to Dumbledore. Yet at every opportunity Dumbledore seems to have failed him. He gave Severus a respectable job but it make you wonder about the rest of it. JKR calles Severus vendictive, while she herself spouts off about wanting revenge on a school teacher.
Bitter? Really who wouldn't be. We have Harry as the example of living through a bad childhood...but we also have Tom and Severus who are other examples of bad childhood.
While Dumbledore catered to Harry, it doesn't seem as though he gave prefered treatement to the young Severus Snape. Now, I do know that Severus must have had the desire to see James/Sirius and possibly even Lupin gone from Hogwarts. But thats easy to understand in the that we see James and Sirius are not only competition for him but they seem to be abusing him as well. Right from the start James goes out of his way to insult Slytherin so they set each other up from the start as enemies - not even counting Lily into that it was already them butting heads.
Then we have the headmaster cover up the attack, protect James/Sirius/Lupin but what sort of protection did he give to Severus? It almost seems like Severus was dumped to the bottom of the barrell and forgotten. Severus seemed to already have the theory about Lupin but when he talks to Lily his cleverness is not only stomped on, but it is also (By his best friend) Vilified. Even Lily makes his ideas and thoughts out to be bad. Thanks Best Friend, I appreciate your support. So at the point Lily is belittling his thoughts/ideas/feelings, Severus knows the truth and knows Lupin is a werewolf. So IF he told or discussed the idea with other Slytherin, Severus cannot reveal the truth and is made to look or feel stupid.
I mean taking it into the context of what happened. His knowledge that is true is belittled by Lily - when he wanted to impress her with his cleverness, instead all of that is stamped on and he's not supposed to be bitter about that?
I think we get that Severus made the wrong choices in his life, but it almost seems like he wasn't allowed to make the right choices because nobody believed/liked/cared about him anyway. Besides, it seems to me he kept his word, kept his promises in the end. At any time Severus could have told about Remus Lupin but he kept his word - even when James/Sirius still seems to be abusing him he still kept his promises.
One could even theorize that Dumbledore is responsible for the Worst Memory Scene; because of the coverup and his allowing Sirius to get away with almost murder it put Severus in a position of being inferior to them. The coverup of Remus being a werewolf was at stake and Dumbledore would have been in trouble for allowing Remus to attend school. Yet it doesn't seem to me that Dumbledore ever really helped Severus, or we don't see it in canon. Severus is just cast aside, to me if Dumbledore had this boy keep a big secret like this HE should have tried to help Severus at every opportunity.
Imagine if Dumbledore had taken up a quarter of the time he spent on Harry? We don't see that in canon but I can't say I see that in canon. Severus was keeping the secret for Dumbledore/Remus - Dumbledore should have gone out of his way to make sure that Severus got just as much special treatement as Sirius and James. I think it probably would have made a huge difference if that had happened.
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Re: Snape gets Love, JKR's depressed.
Date: 2010-12-20 02:48 pm (UTC)JKR showing that her character Severus Snape has things we the readers don't like. Of course, even the diehard Snape fan can admit he's an asshole/jerk but there are obviously other qualities that seem admirable. Where anyone would value that kind of trait or habit, etc.
It just bothers me that becasue it's Sirius and James it seems to be glossed over. Who the hell wouldn't be bitter and resentful given those life situations Severus suffers?
And throught everything Snape became loyal or even more loyal than anyone else to Dumbledore. Yet at every opportunity Dumbledore seems to have failed him. He gave Severus a respectable job but it make you wonder about the rest of it. JKR calles Severus vendictive, while she herself spouts off about wanting revenge on a school teacher.
Bitter? Really who wouldn't be. We have Harry as the example of living through a bad childhood...but we also have Tom and Severus who are other examples of bad childhood.
While Dumbledore catered to Harry, it doesn't seem as though he gave prefered treatement to the young Severus Snape. Now, I do know that Severus must have had the desire to see James/Sirius and possibly even Lupin gone from Hogwarts. But thats easy to understand in the that we see James and Sirius are not only competition for him but they seem to be abusing him as well. Right from the start James goes out of his way to insult Slytherin so they set each other up from the start as enemies - not even counting Lily into that it was already them butting heads.
Then we have the headmaster cover up the attack, protect James/Sirius/Lupin but what sort of protection did he give to Severus? It almost seems like Severus was dumped to the bottom of the barrell and forgotten. Severus seemed to already have the theory about Lupin but when he talks to Lily his cleverness is not only stomped on, but it is also (By his best friend) Vilified. Even Lily makes his ideas and thoughts out to be bad. Thanks Best Friend, I appreciate your support. So at the point Lily is belittling his thoughts/ideas/feelings, Severus knows the truth and knows Lupin is a werewolf. So IF he told or discussed the idea with other Slytherin, Severus cannot reveal the truth and is made to look or feel stupid.
I mean taking it into the context of what happened. His knowledge that is true is belittled by Lily - when he wanted to impress her with his cleverness, instead all of that is stamped on and he's not supposed to be bitter about that?
I think we get that Severus made the wrong choices in his life, but it almost seems like he wasn't allowed to make the right choices because nobody believed/liked/cared about him anyway. Besides, it seems to me he kept his word, kept his promises in the end. At any time Severus could have told about Remus Lupin but he kept his word - even when James/Sirius still seems to be abusing him he still kept his promises.
One could even theorize that Dumbledore is responsible for the Worst Memory Scene; because of the coverup and his allowing Sirius to get away with almost murder it put Severus in a position of being inferior to them. The coverup of Remus being a werewolf was at stake and Dumbledore would have been in trouble for allowing Remus to attend school. Yet it doesn't seem to me that Dumbledore ever really helped Severus, or we don't see it in canon. Severus is just cast aside, to me if Dumbledore had this boy keep a big secret like this HE should have tried to help Severus at every opportunity.
Imagine if Dumbledore had taken up a quarter of the time he spent on Harry? We don't see that in canon but I can't say I see that in canon. Severus was keeping the secret for Dumbledore/Remus - Dumbledore should have gone out of his way to make sure that Severus got just as much special treatement as Sirius and James. I think it probably would have made a huge difference if that had happened.