[HPforGrownups] Snape's treatment of Hermione

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 37618

Porphyria said:
>I like to imagine she's the authorial voice at these 
>moments telling us the reader that Snape's really a 
>good guy. Either that or she's discovered that he >secretly owns a kitten, but that would be pure 
>speculation. :-)

Oh, that would be just like Hermione, wouldn't it?  Uncovering the dark, deep, hidden secrets of the so-called authority figures around her -- like lycanthropy, animagi-status, and..kittens. ^_^ *trying quite valiantly not to break into a fit of giggles*

Tex:
>Snape's behavior in the colliding curse scene might well betray 
>Snape's judgment 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.  

Erm, I think she was in a little bit too much pain to be plotting *anything* (even a bit of harmless sympathy-getting) at that point.  It wasn't like she was hanging around or anything, waiting for acknowledgement, she was whimpering in pain and trying to assess the damage.  Every time I think of that scene I just shudder.  I mean, aside from the blatant cruelty of the evil-one-known-as-Snape, can you *imagine* the PAIN Hermione must have been in?  I mean, have any of you ever had braces?  It's freaking torture, I tell you, and that's just the pain caused by moving your teeth a couple millimeters -- the way Hermione's teeth were growing it must have been -- arghh...can't think about it.

 Marina:
> I think one of Snape's problems is his tendency to project his own 
> mindset on other people.  Take his reaction to the Prank: Snape 
> would never have set someone up for a werewolf encounter unless he 
> actually meant to kill them; so he can't believe Sirius could've 
> done it without meaning to kill *him*.  In Hermione's case, he's 
> convinced that her behavior in class indicates a desire to show him 
> up and make herself look important, because that's why *he* would've 
> done it when he was a student.

..and someone else said that Hermione always expects the best of seemingly E-V-I-L authority figures (such as Snape) because *she* projects *her* beliefs on them.. Sort of as if Snape is assuming the worst of her and she is assuming the best of him for exactly the same reasons.  Nicely contrary, isn't it?

and one more thing...

Finwitch:
Hermione&Ron -- Yes, I see it coming unless either one dies first. Maybe they even marry during 7th or 6th book? Considering that 17 is legal age of adulthood... I see Ron getting in trouble for it... attacking Malfoy. "He threatened my *wife*, Professor". Kissing 
Hermione in Gryffindor Common Room "You say I may not kiss my *wife*? What kind of stupid person made that sort of "rule" up?" AND, this would be something Ron's brothers haven't done yet - none of THEM is married. (Or we'd seen Ron's sister-in-law by now). Oh - and then we can get a *pregnant* Hermione, getting nasty at every one, refusing to drink a potion "might hurt my baby, Sir, I better not", Ron, as father, standing up for her and the baby... AND Ron can finally do 
something his siblings haven't! Molly and Arthur giving him advice about fatherhood... Baby at Hogwarts! Wouldn't you just love it?

*starts to wretch violently* Oh, oh..finwitch, you've just about done me in with this one.  If *that* happens I believe I will completely renounce life altogether..aggh..how could you "love" that?? ^_~ I swear, some of you have a *really* weird idea of what is "cute".  That is just...Wrong.  With a capital "W".  Wrong, as in everything that is awful in the universe.  Oh, ick.

Thank God, I think that's the one thing we can definitely say JKR *won't* be doing.

laura (still look a bit green about the gills)


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