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Comment author: red75 04 July 2010 02:28:13PM *  2 points [-]

Analysis of Harry's conversation with Snape in ch. 27.

"If he were a friend," Harry said, "all the more reason to forgive him."

Possible Snape thoughts: "He implies that I wasn't even a friend of She. How dare he!?" ... consideration of different ways of mutilation ... then "Oh! He can't possibly be like his mother. She had a very high standards for Her friends. Maybe his stepparents taught him this indiscrimination of friends."

"She was shallow"

"SHE was shallow!? ... But She married that brat Potter. Was Her standards high after all? Maybe not. And I gave all the power I could have for her..."

So I think Snape became misogynous. Thus Alissa's affection became irritating for him. I don't know what implications it will have for storyline however.

Edit: Analysis is done by Type 1 processing with Type 2 postselection, so no justification is given. :)

Edit: This hypothesis seems to be insufficient for explanation of emphasis on "wrong" in Aftermath 2, maybe there's something more.

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  1. "Wrong" can mean, that she was aware, that Snape isn't kind of person young woman is supposed to crush on. I'm not sure that this is true for Slytherin. Anyway Snape isn't handsome guy, it's not deserve emphasis to hint that.

  2. "Wrong" can mean, that she feels it's bad for her to show affection now. Fits my hypothesis, but not wording "There was probably something really wrong with her...", which imply that she knew it all the way.

Some part of puzzle seems to be missing.

Comment author: pjeby 04 July 2010 09:13:08PM 4 points [-]

This hypothesis seems to be insufficient for explanation of emphasis on "wrong" in Aftermath 2, maybe there's something more.

The "wrong" is presumably that the wizarding world isn't much familiar with, or accepting of, urges tending towards BDSM. A student of her age would be unlikely to be familiar with the idea of such a thing not being "wrong", given their lack of internet access. ;-)

Comment author: red75 04 July 2010 09:25:21PM 1 point [-]

Um, yes, I find out what special detentions mean after I wrote last part.