Snape's behavior

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, CYNTHIA L SHANNON 
<clshannon75 at s...> wrote:
>
> I wasn't able to reply to the actual message since I
> am on digest, but I did want to address the assumption
> by a few posters that Snape has never been physical
> with the students, especially Harry.
> In OOTP, during the chapter 'Snape's Worst Memory', he
> throws Harry 'from him with all his might'. Harry hits
> the floor hard. Before this, Snape had grabbed Harry's
> arm in a pincer like grip while still in the pensieve.
> 
> I would say  that throwing a student from him with all
> his might constitutes being rather physical ;-)
> 
> Cindy
> P.S. He also shakes Harry so hard in that scene that
> Harry's glassses slip down his nose ;-)
>
Yes, he's physical in OOTP but had not been up to that time
JenD