Hermione vs Snape

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 37537

Marina wrote:
> That might conceivably be true now (though I have trouble believing 
> that Snape would consider a fourteen-year-old girl to be a threat to 
> him, no matter how bright she was), but it doesn't explain why Snape 
> is nasty to Hermione.  He was nasty to her before she brewed the 
> polyjuice potion.  He was nasty from the very first day of the very 
> first year, when she was just an anonymous eleven-year-old whose 
> only crime was to be in Gryffindor.  No way he would've considered 
> her a threat then.
> 
> Marina

Snape doesn't necesarily fear what Hermione is, but what she may 
become. Since wizards live to such age, Hermione will be a direct 
competition to Snape's mastery of potion for most of his life, so he 
already fears her. On your second point (Snape wasn't afraid of her in 
the first day), it could be true, but at that time he's not 
particularly nasty. Snape doesn't start to pick very hard on Hermione 
until she starts to seriously demonstrate her capabilities. OTOH, you'd 
say that someone who's learned everything the book says on potions is 
already someone who could, at some point, prove to be SERIOUS 
competition -- I doubt that those questions were easy; in fact, they 
were probably the hardest snape could think of.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf