Casting decisions (was: Half-Blood Prince)

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:

> In CoS when Ron and Harry are looking into the 
> Great Hall and wondering aloud where Snape is, he interrupts them 
> with something along the line of "or maybe he's wondering why you 
> didn't arrrive on the train with the other students..."
> 
> Granted, Ron and Harry were pretty frightened at that point, but I 
> thought it was funny.


zanooda:

It was very funny, but it's not in the way that I meant :-).  Snape is 
funny here in the sense that what he is saying is funny.  He is being 
sarcastic, and the sarcasm is aimed at the boys, so it's them who are 
being made fun of.  I meant Snape being funny in the sense of *him* 
being made fun of, like in this scene from the movie.  

I don't remember anything like that in the books.  Maybe the closest is 
Slughorn's party, where Slughorn treats Snape with a familiarity that 
makes the latter uncomfortable, but it's not exactly funny.  If anyone 
ever attempts to make Snape look funny ("There's no need to call 
me 'sir', Professor" :-)), there will be immediate retaliation :-). 

Oh, there is also that scene where Neville transforms Boggart!Snape 
into Gran, which *is* funny, but again, it's not the same as make fun 
of real live Snape :-). Only DD is allowed to make a little fun of 
Snape, but, in the light of all we know now it doesn't seem funny 
anymore.