The inner Snape /SHIP McGonagall

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 77117

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote:
 They have *always* been friendly and except for DD, who Snape is 
> deferential to (grammar police on the way) and who treats Snape 
like 
> an annoyance at best--garbage at worst, she's really the only one 
who 
> seems to have any sort of camaraderie with SS that we are privvy 
to.

Do you really think Dumbledore thinks so little of Snape?  I think 
he's rather protective of Snape - he never lets Harry get away with 
just calling him by his last name, he always makes a point of 
correcting him, and reminding Harry that it's *Professor* Snape.  He 
does countermand him sometimes, and at the end of PoA he ends up 
making him look foolish, but honestly, Snape can be IMPOSSIBLE 
sometimes!  I don't think it's inconsistent that Dumbledore can feel 
concern and even affection for his prickly Potions Master, while 
being perfectly aware of his faults and limitations.  Snape doesn't 
seem like the sort who would be unaware if Dumbledore really thought 
so little of him, and I don't think he would take it tamely.  He'd 
react the way he did with Umbridge - outwardly polite, but obviously 
seething.  I never get the impression that he feels that way about 
Dumbledore

Wanda