To be honest, I was surprised that this wasn’t your least favorite chapter of DH.
/She has to debase him even further, describing his “undisguised greed” as he looks at Lily/
Which is probably supposed to tarnish Snape’s image in the readers’ eyes, to warn them against having too much sympathy for Snape.
Except…didn’t Harry look “greedily” at the image of his family in the Mirror of Erised, way back in the first book?
/Rowling also undermines her readers’ feelings of sympathy by never referring to this little boy as anything but “Snape.”/
I wonder if this is an echo of everyone referring to Pettigrew as “Wormtail.”
/If someone had paid attention to him, encouraging his inquisitive nature/
I wonder if the reason why he joined the Death Eaters was because Voldemort did pay attention to him or, at the very least, convincingly pretend to.
/He’s talking to her about Slytherin when James rudely interrupts and sneers at that house/
How did Slytherin have a bad reputation back then? Voldemort wasn’t on the scene yet.
/He had “...that indefinable air of having been well-cared for, even adored, that Snape so conspicuously lacked.”/
Like Draco did, when Harry first met him at Madam Malkin’s. This is why I wonder if the Harry-Snape/James-Draco parallels were deliberate or not, despite Dumbledore switching them around in PS/SS.
/Obviously, he’s still uncomfortable about his father’s behavior, which speaks well of him/
Like he did in OotP, but once again, nothing comes of it. He still names one of his kids after James.
/become so heartless and judgmental she won’t even allow that friend to speak, let alone cut him any slack/
And she doesn’t give a rat’s rear that her boyfriend humiliated him. She doesn’t care that he almost died as a result of whatever her boyfriend rescued him from. If James bullies people, that’s all right, he can change. But Snape says one nasty insult and he’s doomed forever in her eyes.
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Date: 2014-06-09 04:51 pm (UTC)/She has to debase him even further, describing his “undisguised greed” as he looks at Lily/
Which is probably supposed to tarnish Snape’s image in the readers’ eyes, to warn them against having too much sympathy for Snape.
Except…didn’t Harry look “greedily” at the image of his family in the Mirror of Erised, way back in the first book?
/Rowling also undermines her readers’ feelings of sympathy by never referring to this little boy as anything but “Snape.”/
I wonder if this is an echo of everyone referring to Pettigrew as “Wormtail.”
/If someone had paid attention to him, encouraging his inquisitive nature/
I wonder if the reason why he joined the Death Eaters was because Voldemort did pay attention to him or, at the very least, convincingly pretend to.
/He’s talking to her about Slytherin when James rudely interrupts and sneers at that house/
How did Slytherin have a bad reputation back then? Voldemort wasn’t on the scene yet.
/He had “...that indefinable air of having been well-cared for, even adored, that Snape so conspicuously lacked.”/
Like Draco did, when Harry first met him at Madam Malkin’s. This is why I wonder if the Harry-Snape/James-Draco parallels were deliberate or not, despite Dumbledore switching them around in PS/SS.
/Obviously, he’s still uncomfortable about his father’s behavior, which speaks well of him/
Like he did in OotP, but once again, nothing comes of it. He still names one of his kids after James.
/become so heartless and judgmental she won’t even allow that friend to speak, let alone cut him any slack/
And she doesn’t give a rat’s rear that her boyfriend humiliated him. She doesn’t care that he almost died as a result of whatever her boyfriend rescued him from. If James bullies people, that’s all right, he can change. But Snape says one nasty insult and he’s doomed forever in her eyes.