Was Snape's treatment of Hermione/ Snape's treatment of the Slytherins

[dazed_sparkling_dreamer]

No: HPFGUIDX 37609

> Snape's behavior in the colliding curse scene might well betray 
> Snape's judgement about the particular students.  He tells Goyle
> to go the the hospital wing, because Goyle doesn't have sense 
> enough to realize what to do.  Hermione understands what to do;
> I think she just wanted Snape to show a bit of sympathy.  With his 
> treatment of Malfoy, & Co., Snape is cultivating for LV, a next 
> generation of Death Eaters who will be wimps.


A thought on this, "being soft on the Slytherins makes them wimps" 
thing.

I do think this is an attempt to turn them from the dark, but not by 
making them wimps.

The slytherins are the bad guys.  The house that is intrinsically 
bad, right down to it's founder.  All Slytherins go bad.  Now we know 
this isn't true but it's the impression the school has.  When one 
Slytherin goes bad it's the norm.  When someone from another house 
(SIrus Black for example) does it's a huge exception to the rule.

When the school has a quidditch match everyone cheers whoever is 
playing Slytherin, no one joins in their truiumphs, and cooperation 
with them seems to be non-exsitent.

Even Dumbledore's speech at the end of PS/SS when he changes the 
flags.  He could of changed the points before, that would of been 
sensitive, this wasn't.  He sent a year of slytherins off into the 
world feeling increadibly bitter.
 
Now imagine going through all this as an adolescent.  THe most 
emotionally screwy and embarrising years of your life and almost hte 
entire school hates you.  Hell probably a lot of people can remember 
feeling like this at some point.  Now imagine this for seven years!  
This would be traumatic anyway but these are also the most ambitous 
people in the school.  They may well feel that well what is the point 
in being 'good', staying on the 'light' side.  The light side has 
rejected them. 

This is simplifying it, but I believe it would make them far easier 
to tempt over to the dark.

So Snape favours them, supports them over everyone else to show them 
that someone does.  Someone doesn't think they are evil scum.  Then 
they will also trust him if they have to make that choice.

And he wants Slytherin to win of course!

Just a theory.