Snape & Neville's Memory

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No: HPFGUIDX 36782

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "talondg" <trog at w...> wrote:

> Note that Snape can have Neville's best interests at heart, without
> having to be a sentimental old softie down deep.
> 
> "Iron sharpens Iron" or "The best teacher is the Enemy"
> 
> Snape's role is a _professor_. His job is to teach the skills he is 
responsible for to his students -  ALL his students. He is preparing 
them for life outside the protected walls of Hogwarts. And I think he 
feels a strong sense of duty to do so.
> 
> His students don't have to _like_ him, as long as they learn!

> "I'm gonna teach these goddamn kids how to survive in the real world
> even if I have to kill them in the process!"

Still, he mistreats Neville and the rest of Griffyndor to strengthen 
them?  What kind of reaction is he hoping to get? Remember yound 
wizards' magic manifests itself in strange ways.

I was rereading PofA and pictured Neville in the place of Harry with 
Fudge in Ch 3...

"BUT I BLEW UP MY PROFESSOR!"

"My dear boy, We're not going to punish ypu for a little thing like 
that! It was an accident. We don't send people to Azkaban just for 
blowing up ex-DeathEaters!"

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