Authority and rule-breaking

[koinonia02 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16414

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Morag Traynor" <moragt at h...> wrote:

 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)


There are no known *issues* from the past that we know of.  I don't 
believe Snape picks on Neville simply because Neville lacks 
confidence. There is more to Snape/Neville.  We just don't know what 
it is yet.  I am not taking up for the way Snape treats Neville.  I 
am just saying we don't know the whole story yet.  The same thing 
with Snape and Harry.  Though Snape shows quite a bit of unfairness 
towards Harry, I don't believe Harry is the perfect angel.  Harry 
does tend to get away with quite a bit. 
   

 and scoring 
> cheap points with the Slytherin mob, and playing outrageous 
favourites with 
> Malfoy.


There has to be more here than meets the eye also!


  He is threatened by Hermione because she is a good student (how 
> many second years could have pulled off that polyjuice potion?)


Somehow I don't think Snape is threatened by Hermione.  As much as I 
like her she can be very annoying.


> 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.


At that point in time,  Snape did believe that Lupin was in on the 
prank that could have got him killed.



Snape makes Lockhart look like a 
> model teacher.


Come now.  I don't think that is how Dumbledore views Snape at all.  
If Snape is truly such an evil and mean person why does Dumbledore 
allow him to stay?  Why did D. invite Snape to Hogwarts in the first 
place?  I am just saying there is more to Snape then we have seen.

  
> 
> "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."


I personally thought this was a very funny part.  There is no way 
Snape would ever poison one of the students!

Koinonia
 
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