Snape and respect

[Becky Walkden]

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 "Tom Wall <thomasmwall at yahoo.com>" <thomasmwall at yahoo.com> wrote:

Michael Broadwater wrote:
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."

Tom's reply:
Sure, it's a great leap, if Snape's an unobservant idiot.

How do we know that Snape *doesn't* know? After all, she was under 
the seats, but somehow Quirrell was aware that it was her. If 
Quirrell was aware, I wouldn't say that's it's any stretch that Snape 
could have figured it out.

Me

Actually Tom, while Snape may have become aware later on who set him on fire, he didn't have to be an "unobservant idiot" to at least not know at the time who did it.  After all, he was performing a counter-curse at the time and his entire attention and focus had to be on Harry.  By the time he would know he was on fire, Hermonine would be gone.

Now as far as Quirell was concerned, he was also focusing on Harry but the difference is, she actually accidently ran into him and knocked him over.  So it would be pretty much impossible for him to not know who did it.  But I doubt seriously even if Snape did know that his hostility towards Hermonine would be because of that.  After all, if he did know, it would probably have been easy to charge her with the deed and prove it but he never did.  So either he didn't know or at least begrudgingly understood why she was doing it.  It wouldn't have been his nature to confide to her or Harry what he was actually doing at the time.   

Huggs  Becky