[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re:Sometimes things just have to smack me upside the head.......

[Nightbreed]

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Pippin:
I think that's the only reason. One of the things that smack *me* on the
head on re-reading is that Snape says nothing at all nasty to Neville in
that first class, 

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As a writer Rowling wants to concentrate on her main characters, to have
Snape needle Harry then turn on Neville would take away from Snapes focus on
Harry, the reader wouldn't get that strong impression of Snapes abject focus
on Harry, his singular issue. The reader wouldn't get the Snape / Harry
dynamic or such a strong sense of why he, Hermione and Ron distrust him in
regards to Harry if he was picking on several student.

Neville's issue with Snape is more about how easily he's intimidated by
Snape and his lack of skill at potions, Snape doesn't have to directly go
after Neville for Neville to be rattled, and it makes Neville in DH a much
more evolved character.