Snape by Lorrie Kim

Author:Lorrie Kim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Story Spring Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

“What are you doing, Potter?” said Snape coldly as ever, as he strode over to the four of them.

“I’m trying to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, sir,” said Harry fiercely.

Snape stared at him.

“Put that wand away at once,” he said curtly. “Ten points from Gryff—”

Snape looked toward the giant hourglasses on the walls and gave a sneering smile.

“Ah. I see there are no longer any points left in the Gryffindor hourglass to take away. In that case, Potter, we will simply have to—” (HP/OotP, 852)

In Snape’s version of a happily-ever-after, we know that Hogwarts returns to some form of equilibrium at the close of this volume because Snape regains his friend and work partner, the good cop to his bad cop, and they can outwit students together again.

“Add some more?”

Professor McGonagall had just stumped up the stone steps into the castle. She was carrying a tartan carpetbag in one hand and leaning heavily on a walking stick with her other, but otherwise looked quite well.

“Professor McGonagall!” said Snape, striding forward. “Out of St. Mungo’s, I see!”

“Yes, Professor Snape,” said Professor McGonagall, shrugging off her traveling cloak, “I’m quite as good as new. You two—Crabbe—Goyle—” (HP/OotP, 852)

McGonagall has no compunction about ordering Snape’s Slytherins to carry her luggage. She dispatches Harry and Draco just as briskly while Snape indulges himself in grumbling about the points she’s just awarded Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. It’s been a long year.

Harry doesn’t know it yet, but in his grief over Sirius, he is learning another of Snape’s strategies for remaining steadfast while unable to show his true self to the world. As painful as it is to be seen falsely, such concerns recede compared to the emotion of wishing to protect someone—or grieving the failure to protect them.

“Ev’ryone knows you’ve bin tellin’ the truth now, Harry,” said Hagrid softly and unexpectedly. “Tha’s gotta be better, hasn’ it?”

Harry shrugged. . . .

A few days ago, before his exams had finished and he had seen the vision Voldemort had planted in his mind, he would have given almost anything for the Wizarding world to know that he had been telling the truth, for them to believe that Voldemort was back and know that he was neither a liar nor mad. Now, however . . . (HP/OotP, 854-5)

That’s how Snape stands being thought evil when he is actually risking more than almost anyone as a double agent against Voldemort. The longer he can remain hidden, the more he can protect not only Harry but his own Slytherins, boys as needy as he was at their age. The Inquisitorial Squad showed him how easy it would be for others to turn them toward evil. He will do what he must to stay close and protect them.

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