Snape's rationality

[dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51107

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros <melclaros at y...>" 
<melclaros at y...> wrote:
He's downright horrible to Harry at times. He's 
> downright horrible to just about EVERYONE at times. We see him 
being 
> awful to Neville and Hermione and if all the books were 2000 pages 
> long we'd likely get to see him treat most, if not all his students 
> (Including his "pet" Slytherins--how do we know what's going on in 
> the Slyth. HQs?) to some threat or sneering insult. He called them 
> ALL Dunderheads on the first day.

Me: If you accept it as a given that Snape is horrible to Harry, I 
can only applaud.

I do disagree though that he is just down right horrible to everyone 
(I am talking about his students only).
Whom else he treats as badly as HArry, Hermione and Neville? Yeah, he 
could be just as nasty to his Slyths in private but to me it is just 
wishful thinking at the moment.

> AND SO WHAT? Harry, of any student at Hogwarts should
> A) after his life-long mistreatment by the Dursleys HARDLY NOTICE 
and
> B) if he does notice he, out of any student at Hogwarts should be 
the 
> MOST ABLE TO DEAL WITH IT.

 Me: Harry does deal with it the only way he knows how by not 
trusting Snape (I can't blame him)and being rude to him (most of time 
I can't blame him either)

> Harry is used to being treated badly. What's the big deal? He 
doesn't 
> have to be coddled and favored by EVERYONE.

Me: For example by McGonagall, who does not hesitate to take 50 
points off him?

 Who here is? He gets more 
> than enough kid glove treatment from everyone else at HW to make up 
> for his sad previous years.

Me: This is bad how?
 
> He's no nicer to Snape than Snape is to him. He wasted no time in 
> smart-mouthing him on the first day of class. 

Me: That is the problem in my mind. I expect much more from the 
Hogwards professor than I expect from the child. Children learn how 
to behave when they grow up and mature. Snape is supposed to learn 
something by now.

As Amanda (and others 
> have pointed out) Harry has yet to thank, or even aknowledge 
Snape's 
> saving his life in PS/SS and his subsequent actions on Harry's 
behalf 
> as the story has progressed.

Me: Oh, he should and I have no doubts that he will later. Will Snape 
ever apologize to Harry? I am not so sure.

Alla