Lots of Snape

[mrs_snape at softhome.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 47405

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) writes:
> I (and therefore  Snape) can imagine that Draco deliberately provoked the > attack in order to get Hagrid in trouble. Snape might have believed some > tale Draco told of the attack being unprovoked, or simply approved of any 
> scheme to trouble Hagrid. 

But would Snape want to get Hagrid into trouble? In the book we have lots of 
people that Snape doesn't approve of or quite openly dislikes, but we never 
really see him in direct interaction with Hagrid, do we? 

In PS, Hagrid does defend Snape vehemently against all accusations made by 
HHR even though their arguments should at least make him hesitate for a 
moment. One *could* assume that Hagrid is simply very respectful towards all 
teachers and in this case trusts Dumbledore's judgement but he doesn't 
exactly hide his anoyance about Lockhart. 

I just don't see Snape being malicious against Hagrid. Sure, he has in some 
aspects a rather simple mind and isn't the fastest but he respects Snape and 
doesn't seem to treat him with any of the suspicion/dislike/irritation that 
others do. 

It's a bit hard to judge since, as I said, there isn't much interaction 
between them. 

Dinah