Harmony ,'Underneath'
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Snape's hate of Harry, Our Hero, is one of the most clever things in the books. It's refreshing to have major allies dislike each other so much.
Wrod. Back on TT, someone far more clever than I defined Snape as the opposite of the Villain with the Heart of Gold: The Hero with the Heart of Crap.
Snape's hate of Harry, Our Hero, is one of the most clever things in the books. It's refreshing to have major allies dislike each other so much.
Oh yeah, I love how Snape's not evil: he's just really fucking bitter.
Snape's hate of Harry, Our Hero, is one of the most clever things in the books. It's refreshing to have major allies dislike each other so much.
The more I read of Harry? The more I sympathise with Snape. Seriously, I've not seen a kid in more need of a smack upside the head.
(I also have suspicions that Dumbledore isn't as pure as we've been led to believe, but argument for that is kind of flimsy.)
I'm still enamored of the Dumbledore-is-Ron theory.
The Dumbledore is Ron?
Please to explain.
Snape hating Harry has never struck me as clever. It's just...there. If I can't have a reason for it (even if it's "that's just how Snape is"), I'd at least like to know why he gets away with it in loco parentis.
If Draco's got Muggle blood in him, seems like the Malfoy side is more likely, since Narcissa's a Black and we know an awful lot about that family tree.
The more I read of Harry? The more I sympathise with Snape. Seriously, I've not seen a kid in more need of a smack upside the head.
Hell, yeah. And, as irritatingly written as it was in OoP, I like that James-at-Hogwarts was kind of a jackass, and that Snape was just the nerd he picked on.
Nobody at Hogwarts would be hired in a decent teaching institution. Well, maybe Madam Pomfret. But Snape? Hagrid? Trelawney? Forget. It.
Jumping outside the frame, Snape is a classic character in British school stories: the Cruel Teacher With Invaluable Expertise. He shows up in Stalky And Company.
If they named it properly, Hogwarts would be Dumbledore's Asylum for the Dubiously Competent.