Snape (was:JKR, Harry Potter, and the Nature of Evil)

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 19650

Margaret Dean wrote:
> 
> (And I do find it a little surprising that so many people on this
> list come down so VERY hard on Snape for one nasty crack.  I
> wonder how many of them he had to endure, in his own school days,
> from people like the ones who magicked them into the Marauder's
> Map for him to find.)
> 

I don't come down hard on Snape *only* because of that nasty crack he 
makes to Hermione (although it is extremely ugly and IMO 
unforgivable).  I don't like Snape because he's just plain mean.  He 
starts out being ugly to Harry by treating him differently on the 
very first day he is in class. (But I'm willing to guess he would 
deny that by claiming "I treat him just like all the other first 
years.")  He knows (or should) that Harry was raised in a Muggle 
family and had no idea who he was until Hagrid filled him in. He's 
nasty to Harry because of a grudge against James.  At that time, he 
doesn't know that Harry will become a regular rule-breaker.  Harry's 
just an 11 yo kid in his first day of school. 

He is also mean and derogatory towards Neville (and in front of 
another professor too!) and Hermione too for reasons we don't know.  
There are no excuses for this behavior. 

I trust Snape because Dumbledore trusts him.  I *do not* however, 
like him at all.  (Maybe because he reminds me of my 3rd grade 
teacher?)    

Trina