Hermione's Knowledge of the Longbottoms/Snape

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26783

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., djtarb at a... wrote:
> In a message dated Wed, 26 Sep 2001  1:48:40 PM Eastern Daylight 
Time, cynthiaanncoe at h... writes:
> 
> > 
> > As for why Snape can't find it in his heart to give poor Neville 
a 
> > break . . . well, I'll let the Snape fans field that question.
Dianne wrote:> >
>  
> I'm not a full-fledged Snape fan (I'm in the wait-and-see, but he's 
certainly intriguing category), but if he was questioned by the 
Aurors he may not want to be nice to ANY of their kids.  Let's not 
forget that the Aurors were permitted to use all sorts of torments on 
suspected Death Eaters, including some of the Unforgiveable Curses.  
If Neville's dad was one of his questioners, he'd really have a 
grudge.  Snape has never shown himself to be overburdened by a sense 
of fairness, so it is entirely in character to take out his past 
injuries on Neville, just as he has done with Harry.
> 

Diane, that is a great theory.  It never occured to me before.  One 
thing we know about Snape from PoA is that he's capable of holding a 
grudge.  In GoF, I always figured that Snape has issues with Moody, 
perhaps because Moody accused Snape of being a DE or something.  But 
it could have been the Longbottoms.  If so, then I wouldn't put it 
past Snape to be hard on their son, just the way he's being hard on 
Harry because of his dislike for James.

Assuming, of course, that this is the reason Snape is hard on Harry.  
I'm still not convinced.

Cindy (who finds Snape intriguing, but can't quite figure out a way 
to like him.)