[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR, Harry Potter, and the Nature of Evil

[JamiDeise at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19660

In a message dated 5/28/2001 12:13:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tamf at matavnet.hu writes:

<< as for Hermione, that's
 probably a result of her being a friend of Harry's... or a member of
 Gryffindor... or a girl, Muggle-born, whatever.>> I think it's because she's 
so smart. Snape probably sees her as a little know-it-all who deserves to be 
taken down a few pegs. 
 
>> i wonder how Snape would have treated Harry if he'd been in Slytherin?<< 
he would have taken Harry under his wing, I'm sure. Remember the scene in CoS 
when Harry speaks Parseltongue to the snake that Draco creates in the dueling 
club? Everyone backs away from Harry, and Harry notices Snape giving him a 
shrewd, calculating look. I inferred that to mean that Harry suddenly went up 
a few notches in Snape's book. 
 
<<< > (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.)
 
 it's not just one! he continually abuses his unfavourite pupils with
 nasty jabs at their weaknesses. i'm sure the ones described in the
 books aren't the only ones, either. his classes sound like nightmares
 to me.
  >>  and to me. Those little comments are like those "telling details" by 
which a reader can infer a person's entire character. Like in PoZ, when Harry 
falls off the broomstick and Cedric asks for a do-over. All we need to know 
about Cedric is right there in that one action.

Jami