Out-of-Order Chapter, "Returning Were As Tedious" -- "Take Any Shape But That"

[rhetoretician]

My original plan was to write the chapters to my Snape story in sequence, but I've also found that certain images keep crowding themselves into my head, and I know better than to ignore them.  So I wrote what I thought was just a short snippet from one of the later chapters of the story (somewhere around Chapter 15), a pivotal moment in the story

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Amazing

[enchanted4964]

Well you accomplished something I never thought possible. You've captivated me with a story about and from the eyes of one sadistic, greasy haired and insufferably arrogant protagonist known as Professor Severus Snape. Amazing!

While I often wonder the journey of the slippery slope that creates a character such as Snape, he's one of those characters that I really don't care what decisions, actions or trauma created him. Mainly because of his sadistic treatment of Harry, which to me is inexcusable no matter the cause. While I can try to forge in my minds eye stories and causes for a mans struggle and downfall the phrase "You knowest this mans fall but you knowest not his wrassling", comes to mind and my heart can forgive, can understand. But not for Snape, I give him no such quarter.

I literally chortled out-loud at the lines "What could make a man both terrified and tickled? A highly amusing executioner? A playful poisonous spider?"...Priceless

I'm quite envious of your writing Ken, again, especially given the character. But I am also quite curious to see your Shakespearean spin to this story. I would assume that Snape's hands are stained with innocent blood "Out, Out, damned spots"

Thank you for sharing this with me. Enchanted aka Maggie

Re: Amazing

[rhetoretician]

Thanks, Maggie. I'm glad you took a look.

As I think I mentioned to you by e-mail once upon a time, the thought of how SS wound up where he is intrigues me, since I think that he's someone who could have been one of the good guys, given some better luck and some better choices. (I don't mean he isn't on the right side of the Voldemort thing -- I mean that he isn't a "good guy" in the sense you're talking about. No matter which side he's on, he's cruel and cold and shouldn't be allowed around children.) But how he got there, that's the question.

I don't know about Lady Macbeth's spots. What makes Macbeth so interesting is that he heads toward damnation step by step, fully aware of what he's doing and horrified by it, but can't stop. Hence the title of the story.