[HPforGrownups] Re: Authority and rule-breaking

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 16404


>Catherine wrote:
>
>  What about fairness and justice? Snape finds
>    it extremely unfair that James and Harry, who are (or were) so
>  popular, should get away with so much. This much is clear. What
>   concerns me about his pre-occupation with rules and justice is that
>in a way, it flies out of the window when Harry is concerned. He
>  uses it as a camouflage for needlessly punishing Harry and his
>  friends.

I agree.  I can't understand how anyone could *like* Snape.  He's a 
*terrible* teacher, starting by telling the whole class he expects them to 
be dunderheads, picking on Harry in the *worst* way, for his fame, which he 
didn't ask for, can't help and never makes anything of.  He is a 
bully/coward, picking on Neville simply because Neville lacks confidence and 
will put up with it (no known *issues* from the past there), and scoring 
cheap points with the Slytherin mob, and playing outrageous favourites with 
Malfoy.  He is threatened by Hermione because she is a good student (how 
many second years could have pulled off that polyjuice potion?), and his "I 
see no difference" comment in the Densaugeo episode leaves me speechless!  
He also disparages another member of staff (Lupin) to the students, and 
seeks to undermine him by making sure the class has enough information to 
guess that he's a werewolf.  Harry suspects that Dumbledore has stepped in 
to prevent his unjustly failing Harrry.  Snape makes Lockhart look like a 
model teacher.

"Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes.  They took this 
seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before 
Christmas to see if their antidote worked."

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