Snape, Sirius, and 'moral codes'

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 74516

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar"
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
> From: M.Clifford
>   Ahem.
>   "He (Harry) had just turned away when he heard a smashing
>   noise................Snape was surveying him with a look of 
gloating

>   pleasure. "Whoops." He said softly. "Another zero then 
Potter."..."
>   Snape does *not* grade fairly.
>
>
>   Valky
>
>   ---
>   Or it could be another example of Snape playing Dumbledore's 
game.
Dumbledore has realised that he cannot show Harry any kind of
friendlyness or favouritism, because of the link between HP and LV.
Snape has already risked his cover as Dumbledore's spy over 
protecting
Harry.  <<

Giving Harry a grade for work turned in in the classroom does not
constitute friendliness or favoritistm.  It's the minimum requirement
(or at least it should be) for a teacher performing his professional
duty.

And I find the claim that Snape needs to be grossly unfair to Harry,
24/7, in order to maintain his cover to be highly unrealistic.  Is
Voldemort really going to say, "Gosh, Snape has tried to prevent 
Quirrel from stealing the Stone, failed to show up at the graveyard 
when I summoned all my Death Eaters, and has generally been living in
Dumbledore's back pocket for the last 15 years.  But hey, he's mean 
to Harry Potter, so he can't possibly be disloyal to me!"  Snape 
isn't undercover as an annoying git, he's undercover as a genocidal 
terrorist. I don't know what the heck he's doing to maintain his 
cover, but whatever it is, it's got to be a heck of a lot bigger and 
more convincing then petty harassment of a student.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com