Snape threats was Re: How Snape is like Harry

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>
> I guess that, to evaluate whether Snape's threat is real, we 
could 
> look at other threats and see to what extent Snape makes 
empty 
> threats.  
> 
> He threatens to feed Neville's botched shrinking solution to 
Trevor.  
> He does, but it works and doesn't kill Trevor. 
> 
> He threatens Harry with Veritaserum but does not use it on 
Harry.
> 
> At this point, I'm drawing a blank.  I can think of a few other 
> threats, but Snape never has the chance to follow through on 
them.  
> One is when he tells Harry to move out of the way or he will 
make 
> him.  Another is when he tells Harry to turn out his pockets or 
they 
> will go to Dumbledore, but Harry complies.  
> 
> Can one of the L.O.O.Ns help here.  Are there other instances 
where 
> Snape threatens someone?

He threatens Quirrel in the Forbidden Forest:
"You don't want me for your enemy, Quirrel...We'll have another 
little chat soon..." but as far as we know, they don't.

He threatens the tosser of the Filibuster Firework in CoS ch. 11 
"When I find out who did this...If I ever find out who threw this...I 
shall *make sure* that person is expelled."
   We know this is empty,  because Snape can only expell 
Slytherins.

In PoA ch. 9 he threatens Harry, "Five more points from Gryffindor 
and if I have to ask you to sit down again, it will be fifty,"  and 
Harry sits. Then he gives Ron a detention and adds, "and if I ever 
hear you criticize the way I teach a class again, you will be very 
sorry indeed."

And of course the mother of all Snape threats is in chapter 19, 
"Give me a reason. Give me a reason to do it and I swear I will."
 Black, who has been advancing on him, stops dead. 

In GoF ch. 18, he threatens Harry and Ron with a week's worth of 
detentions if they don't go into the classroom, but they do. He 
also threatens to make Harry test his antidote, but is interrupted 
by the wand weighing ceremony.

Pippin
wondering if this qualifies her as a L.O.O.N.