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So. Here it is, my Massively Geeky Thesis for Maggie. You can blame her, for her incessant hating on my love. Being that I have loads of time on my hands, and loads of extraneous mental energy, I decided to write out something of an analysis of Snape. It was intended to just be an explanation of why I think he's so great, but it turned into a full-
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Might I ask you nicely to post this in hp_essays? This is, imho, a work the quality & caliber seen there. It's well thought-out, it's logical, and it's fascinating to read! :) <3!
Two things:
1) Snape's treatment of Neville.
This comes not from me, but from Red Hen, just so you know, but I'll try to paraphrase. A theory offered here is about Neville's attitude towards the Wizarding World, etc. It talks about how he's constantly reminded about what good wizards his parents were. When he was a child, he probably unconsciously repressed his magical talents 'cause they were scary and perhaps he didn't want to be a wizard anyway. He repressed his talents so well, he was feared to be a Squib... What if Neville is, at Hogwarts, still unconsciously repressing, in the hopes that, "If I suck at this wizarding thing, will they let me leave?". Snape sees right through his act for the crap it is, and gets really, really tired at his whole, "I suck, I'm so miserable at this, don't make me do it" thing. Of course, with OotP, Neville has blossomed and seems to have more confidence in his abilities. Perhaps he will do better now :)
2) The One who has left Forever who will be Killed
Allow me to disagree with your notion that Snape is who Voldie is talking about there. Again, this comes not from me, but from The North Tower, numbers 15&16, to be precise. I think Snape actually *was* at the DE meeting in the graveyard. If you notice, there are some DEs whom Voldie passes without naming. Of course, they're all masked, so Harry could have looked right at Snape without knowing it was him. If he's still spying for the order, it would be a big eff-up to start off Voldie's resurrection with being suspected! Not smart :) If you look at the timeline (NT #16), Snape had enough time to get past the borders of Hogwarts and apparate to the graveyard. He probably cut it close, but imho, he made it. NT#15 offers an interesting theory of who *was* the DE to be killed, if it wasn't Snape. It's very intriguing :)
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Interesting point about Neville - I am interested to see how he does now that he needs to get a new wand. Remember how Mr. Ollivander said that another person's wand will never work as well? And poor Ron was hopeless during his second year with his busted wand (that was actually Charlie's). I wonder how much of Neville's blundering is because of a lack of effort. We're not told how hard he works. Maybe he's one of those kids who doesn't try, and then bemoans the fact that he gets poor grades.
And as for the DE thing - I read in Harry Potter for Grown-Ups that JKR confirmed in some Q&A session that Snape is, indeed, the one who left forever. She said that we don't need to worry about him, though, because he's tough. (Squeeeeeeeeeee) - Though that does make the spying a tad more difficult, if spying is what he is doing now.
Again, thanks for the accolades. :-) Makes me feel good.
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Really?! (a small voice pops up -- "No, reilly! I'm Irish! ;)) I'd not heard that! Do you have a link to that, by any chance? That makes me *very* curious!!
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Be forewarned, though - HP4GU is really hard to navigate. I hate yahoo groups.
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