MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

[linlou43]

No: HPFGUIDX 68884


D.G. wrote:

> I, for one, really hope that Snape does begin to soften --or at 
least 
> change-- in his demeanor towards Harry.
> 
> At risk of being sacrilegious, I'm getting rather tired of the 
> ongoing and all-too-predictable Snape/Potter relationship as it 
now 
> stands.  

              <snipping developement of other characters>

> Meanwhile, Snape keeps sneering, keeps bullying Harry, keeps 
favoring 
> the son of a man who is now a known Death Eater (and seems 
determined 
> to keep doing so, even though that very son revealed himself as an 
> active accomplice of the Dark Lord when he confronted Harry at the 
> Ministry in OoP).  I simply can't buy it any more -- Snape is 
simply 
> too smart and too important to the story to carry on as a one-
> dimensional "meanie," even if he is on "our" side now.  And, with 
> what we now know incontrovertibly, for him (as a member of the 
Order) 
> to favor Draco, in class or otherwise, comes close to being an act 
of 
> treason. 
       

  Me:

    I agree. Whole heartedly. The relationship between Harry and 
Snape needs to move on. In post 66902 , in the discussion on Harry's 
OWL results, I expressed a desire for Harry to NOT geta high enough 
grade to be eligible for NEWT level potions and that his grade 
should NOT be nudged by Dumbledore or anyone else to get him in the 
class. Part of my reasoning is that the relationship between Snape 
and Harry has developed to a point where it has no where else to go 
within the classroom setting. Without the direct student/teacher 
relationship, new avenues of interaction become available.(I 
understand that that the student/teacher realtionship still applies 
but it is a less stringent application for the purpose of the 
relationship if Harry is not in Snape's class.) 

   -linlou