>>Keeping up appearances, I imagine. He uses Occlumency to hide his >>true feelings from Voldermort, and favors Slytherin to demonstrate >>his continuing loyalty. Or at least that is my theory.
I replied:
>Keep your friends close and your enemies closer? I hadn't thought >about that.
Jim responeded:
That's not really how I thought of it, Reggie. I was looking at it more from a standpoint of what if that little prat Malfoy tells Daddy that Snape is acting funny? It could draw suspicion.
Ah, ok, that makes sense to me.
>And it may be that he really doesn't see the problems with the >students in Slytherin (or with most of them, anyway); >Also, maybe Snape feels that Slytherin is a valid choice of house >(as Dumbledore must also feel, since he hasn't gotten rid of >Slytherin house), and why not have some loyalty to your own house?
That's probably also part of it. And of course sticking it to Harry and the Gryffindors is always a big bonus, I'm sure.
I really like the twist that Harry's dad was not exactly a likeable guy, at least with regard to how he treated Snape. It finally explains Snape's attitude toward Harry, which I always thought was a little weird given that Snape was supposed to be one of the good guys.
Harry got a lot of rude awakenings in this novel, finding out about how his dad and Sirius used to act, losing Sirius, Dumbledore acting in ways he didn't expect (although with a nice turnaround when they tried to arrest him), learning (or not learning) how girls act and react when they like someone, etc.
Reggie Bautista
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