How did Snape Get away with it?

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 26326

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy C.L." <mindyatime at j...> wrote:
> I honestly do not understand how Snape got away with the unfair way 
he
> treated his students, year after year. He is unbelievably mean and 
biased
> and no teacher in this world is permitted to make nasty comments to 
h is
> students the way he did. I was especially taken aback when he warned
> Professor Lupin about having Neville Longbottom in his class (what 
was he
> doing in the staffroom during classtime anyway?) I don't get why 
not one
> of the students or teachers ever complained to Proff. Dumbledore or
> McGonagall about the way he treats Gryffindors. A blatant show of
> favoritism in any school is in my opinion worthy of reproach or even
> dismissal. Hogwarts is not an unfair school and Snape is being 
allowed
> year after y ear to continue his loathing and mistreatment of Harry 
and
> Company. Don't the Heads notice this? After four years, they still 
have
> not called for a conference to gently chide Snape to at least hide 
his
> emotions? The way Snape acts is so totally unprofessional and
> unteacher-like that it is almost ludicrous for this to happen in a
> regular school where the Heads take charge of a school.

I had a horrible professor similar to Snape in college. She taught 
chemistry. Anyhow, we would complain to the administration and the 
answer would always be the same: "We know about the difficulties 
students have with her classes, but Dr. SoandSo has tenure."


Dumbledore's permissiveness is what makes me think Snape is there for 
protection rather than out of the love of teaching.

Milz
Frankly, I would love to see Neville's formidable Gran have it out 
with Snape. I bet she'd give him a good what for.