when he *truly* loses his temper (ie with the Sirius incident)
If we're talking about the scene near the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, I have always felt a little odd about that. I don't have copies of any of the books to hand, but total blind hysterical fury has never seemed particularly in character for Snape; he seems someone who has spent so much of his adult life entirely banked, indrawn. Even given the intensity of his hatred for Sirius, I had a hard time believing he would lose all control like that. (Or perhaps J.K. Rowling was still getting a handle on what a really angry Snape would look like.) Thoughts?
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If we're talking about the scene near the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, I have always felt a little odd about that. I don't have copies of any of the books to hand, but total blind hysterical fury has never seemed particularly in character for Snape; he seems someone who has spent so much of his adult life entirely banked, indrawn. Even given the intensity of his hatred for Sirius, I had a hard time believing he would lose all control like that. (Or perhaps J.K. Rowling was still getting a handle on what a really angry Snape would look like.) Thoughts?