Why Hermoine trusts Snape/justifying Snape

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 69406


Cindy : 
 
If I were Hermione, I probably would have commented about his nose  
and/or hair then and there on the spot. And that would have made us 
equal.

Darrin :

Really? As a 14-year-old already concerned about this one physical  
characteristic, who has just been humiliated in front of your peers, 
you would have had the wherewithal to make a snappy comeback against 
a teacher, who would have no doubt slapped you with a detention on 
the spot.

Me : not to mention that with teeth like that, I doubt she could have 
talked at all...

As far as I am concerned, if Snape is not totally evil, the only way 
I can excuse his behaviour that particular time is that he wasn't 
aware that her teeth were *precisely* Hermione's weakness. If she 
hadn't been so concerned with her teeth, Hermione would have turned 
angry at Snape, but she wouldn't have ran away crying. If he had 
commented on anything else, I guess it would have been okay with her, 
she would have seen it as his usual evil talk. But it was about her 
teeth, which is why she broke down in tears. If Snape is Redeemed!
Snape or Good!But!Not!Nice!Snape, then he was probably shocked and 
horrified when he understood what he had unknowingly done. Then that 
would explain why he would have gone and visited her in the hospital 
wing, and explained stuff to her. Could work.

Del, who has doubts about any kind of Not!So!Bad!Snape but is willing 
to look at things as impartially as possible