[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and respect

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 51293



Michael Broadwater wrote:

> 
>>>Are you insinuating that Snape is psychic?  He didn't know that
>>>Hermione had committed the first two of those three crimes.
>>
>>Didn't he? When he confiscated the book from Harry, he saw this
>>famous blue fire, speciality of Hermione. I think he put two and two
>>together.
> 
> 
> Nothing in canon shows that he did.  

This would go a long way towards explaining his treatment of Hermione.

> The burden of proof is yours.  
> And, if we're going to go on what we "think" happened, then I feel that 
> out of the 1000 supposed students at Hogwarts, Hermione is not the only 
> one who can create fire, giving a much larger pool of suspects. 

Not really. Only Gryffindor would dare to attack a teacher :-) so that's
down to 200 already.

> It's a 
> huge leap to go from "Hermione can create flame" to "Hermione set me on 
> fire even though she was sitting in another part of the stadium and I 
> never saw who did it."

"Who are the best friends of Harry? Where have I seen exactly this kind 
of flame recently?" Does not sound like such a huge leap to me.


> 
> 
>> When Hermione was in the hospital wing, it's quite probable
>>that Madame Pomfrey sought his opinion, or at least mentioned the
>>incident in the teachers room.
> 
> 
> Which incident and hospital visit was that?  And why would Pomfrey seek 
> Snapes opinion on anything? 

When Hermione's turned into a cat. Even if Pomfrey runs her hospital as 
a mafia doctor (would make a lot of sense, actually. She'd want children 
to seek medical help whatever they have done, without weighting the 
urgency against possibility of punishment), she could berate him for 
being so careless in Potions class? Or just ask him since when second 
years brew Polyjuice.


>> He might be a right bastard, but he is
>>not stupid.
>>
> 
> Very true, and I never said that he was.  However, you are presuming 
> that Snape is in possession of information that we are never shown that 
> he has.  If he did "know" that Hermione had stolen from him, he would 
> have punished her with at least detention and loss of house points.  He 
> would do the same if he had found out that she had set him on fire.  
> Snape has never shown an unwillingness to punish students.

But even if he was sure it's Hermione's fault, he has no way of proving 
either of the cases.

Irene