It's brilliant, your identifying Sev's definition of arrogance as believing that one is above having to regard the laws and rules that regulate others' behavior. Or consequences.
Because it's not, it's never been, just James that Harry (at his worst) reminds Severus of.
Though I imagine Severus, like Harry, prefers to externalize some of his own flaws and errors, projecting them on an Other that he already hates.
Draco is not, after all, the only boy who started Hogwarts thinking he could get the rules enforced against his rivals. Nor Harry the only one who snuck around spying on his enemies, sure that if he could just get proof of egregious enough wrongdoing the Headmaster would HAVE to expel them (he almost killed Katie, look!).
Nor either of them the first to decide when they discover their enemies to be Teflon, well bugger that for a game of soldiers. If my tormentors are above considering the law, then so will I be.
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Finally, Severus clinging to rules
Date: 2015-08-17 02:37 pm (UTC)Because it's not, it's never been, just James that Harry (at his worst) reminds Severus of.
Though I imagine Severus, like Harry, prefers to externalize some of his own flaws and errors, projecting them on an Other that he already hates.
Draco is not, after all, the only boy who started Hogwarts thinking he could get the rules enforced against his rivals. Nor Harry the only one who snuck around spying on his enemies, sure that if he could just get proof of egregious enough wrongdoing the Headmaster would HAVE to expel them (he almost killed Katie, look!).
Nor either of them the first to decide when they discover their enemies to be Teflon, well bugger that for a game of soldiers. If my tormentors are above considering the law, then so will I be.