Why Hermoine trusts Snape

[doliesl]

No: HPFGUIDX 69599

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Margaret Dean <margdean at e...> 
wrote:
> 
> You know, what bemuses me about this whole incident is that,
> nasty as the remark was at the time, Hermione (the teenager)
> seems to have gotten over it a whole lot better than many of the
> list members, who are Grownups.  (It says so right in our list
> title!)  And no, I don't think the reason for that is that
> Hermione has some Secret Knowledge about Snape.  I think that,
> with her usual calm good sense (okay, I said =usual.=  The House
> Elves are an aberration! :) ), she realized that in the overall
> scheme of things, it wasn't that big a deal.
> 

I completely agree.
Nasty as the remark might be, Hermione just get over it and move on, 
it's NO BIG DEAL. It's funny for me to see how some readers could 
take it so personally and get so offended with it (and to be honest I 
found the level of nastiness people accused this remark of is quite 
exaggerated). Some of you make it sound like as if it is "the 
cruelest, the most unforgiven, scar-for-life, beyond extreme 
horrible" thing happen to Hermione or something. Yet in the book the 
real victim, Hermione, just don't give a damn about it and move on. 
No only that, she doesn't hate Snape in the end and even defend him 
whenever he's critized! Ha! Isn't that such an irony? 

Call me a bitch or whatever you want, not only I don't find that 
remark "the cruelest, the most unforgiven, scar-for-life, beyond 
extreme horrible" thing at all, I find it very "JKRowlingishly 
funny". You know it's wrong, but it's also funny at the same time 
(and I'm sure many of you this-is-the-most-horrible thing-ever people 
don't find it funny at all, good for you. Just no need to get offend 
and scream at people who find it funny.) It's cruel humor, just like 
how some of you would find the bouncing ferret scene or even 
the "snivellus" part funny. Of course I never said it's okay for 
Snape to say that remark, just in case all you Snape haters get 
all "witch hunt" at me for giving excuses for Snape blah blah. I 
wasn't. It's perfectly in-character for Snape to say that, he doesn't 
need any excuse. It's not like we don't know by now he is a 
unpleasant bitter sarcastic nasty man. So my point is, I highly doubt 
there's some sort of big theory behind why Hermione trusts Snape. She 
just didn't take that remark seriously and get over it like a mature 
person (and we all know she is little miss-mature don't we). Then 
Since it was such a "no big deal" matter to her, so she didn't let it 
go in her way when judging someone. Hermione trusts Dumbledore, and 
since Dumbledore trusts Snape, she trusts Snape. It's as simple as 
that. Wouldn't it be OOC for Hermione to think "oh how dare Snape 
said that remark to me, he's the most evil untrustworthy person 
ever!" That's Ron, not our smart mature raitonal Hermione!

D