The Psychology of Severus Snape (2018 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 30 October 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Burdo, why do people love Snape, Severus Snape? |
| 0:12.0 | Why do they? |
| 0:13.0 | He's supposed to be kind of a secondary character and at times he's almost like a villain. |
| 0:19.5 | But for many people, Severus Snape is their favorite character from the Harry Potter books |
| 0:26.2 | in the movies. |
| 0:27.2 | He's probably to love her. |
| 0:29.9 | Why do people? |
| 0:31.2 | It's because he is the ultimate tragic character and yet initially we all felt he was a very |
| 0:38.0 | good villain and it's just like there's so many good archetypes wrapped up and demonstrated |
| 0:44.3 | via that character. |
| 0:46.0 | He's also, I think as it was portrayed in the movies was done so well by Rickman. |
| 0:54.8 | So I think the people that read the books probably felt like myself felt fell in love with |
| 1:00.8 | the complexity of that character and just how much we didn't like him and then how much |
| 1:04.5 | we grew to understand all the things we didn't understand. |
| 1:08.2 | And then the people that saw the movies probably loved also the performance that he gave |
| 1:13.4 | and yeah, it's great. |
| 1:15.8 | I love it. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, it's interesting. |
| 1:17.8 | People love Vader and Kylo and Loki and Ramsey Bolton and Theon Grady. |
| 1:24.7 | Joy and Hannibal Lecter, Patrick Bateman. |
| 1:27.6 | But in all those examples, all those were real monsters and Snape defies those expectations. |
| 1:37.4 | And I think that we love these characters or some people do because they hold a lot |
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