Sometimes things just have to smack me upside the head.......

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:
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> "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/39173>:
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> << Nor do I see (despite rumors that Snape favors the Slytherins) any evidence that he favors anyone besides Draco. We don't see him handing out points left and right to Pansy Parkinson or even Blaise Zabini and Theodore Nott, both of whom end up in NEWT Potions. >>

Catlady: 
> We don't see him docking points from Crabbe and Goyle, not even calling them 'idiot boy!' or 'disgrace to Slytherin!', which we can take as an example of favoritism to Slytherin.

Carol:
I don't think we can take absence of evidence as evidence of absence. After all, he did give them detention in HBP, ostensibly because they needed to retake their DADA OWLs. (His real reason was probably to interrogate them about Draco.)

We see from Harry's point of view, so only what he thinks is important gets recorded, which includes Hermione not receiving points that Harry thinks she deserves (and no doubt she does). Then again, maybe Snape simply doesn't give out points for schoolwork to anyone, even his favorite student, Draco. In fact, I don't recall his ever giving points to anyone for any reason. And he does *dock* points from people who aren't in Slytherin, as we see at the Yule Ball with a Hufflepuff and a Ravenclaw.

Carol, who thinks that we don't have sufficient evidence to draw conclusions on the matter