Why Hermoine trusts Snape

[doliesl]

No: HPFGUIDX 69656

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Good, one more proof that a 14-year-old is more mature than her 
> Potions Master. As if I needed any more. :)

Yeah, so? Isn't that the way these characters suppose to be anyways?

> Oh, c'mon, this is a complete attempt at mitigating circumstances.
> 
> "Hermione got over it. We should to."

We who find the remark not really "the most injustice beyond horror 
cruelest remarks ever make" as you guys do choose to get over it. You 
don't have to, but keep bringing it up and crying over it repeatedly 
isn't gonna change our mind or like Snape as a character any less. 

> "You're making Hermione out to be the victim when she's not."

You're making Hermione out to be a "weak helpless crybaby" victim 
when she's not.
 
> "We thought it was funny."

It IS funny! But didn't I say I know it's wrong. That's why it's a 
a "cruel humor", a guilty laugh. Same case for Bouncing Ferret.

> "Whiny people are making a bigger deal out of this."

If you, a reader, actually felt personally insulted and hurt, to the 
point that your anger toward this fictional character made you devote 
all these time and energy into repeatedly putting down him and his 
fans, then yeah, you are making a bigger deal out of it.

> The clear message is that, so long as the victim holds no grudge, 
the 
> offense is not as bad.

No one ever says this. I guess you can interpret anyway you want, 
just don't put words in our mouth.

> Tell me, is the reverse true? Because Snape won't let anything 
James 
> and Sirius did go, does that make their offenses worse?

No it does not make their offense any worse or justify. The fact that 
Snape doesn't let go his grudges simply show how he handle 
insults/assults differently from Hermione. 
Besides, even though I think what they did was wrong, I don't get all 
upset and personally offended at what James and Sirius did to Snape 
(and sure won't start a hating club for them and spend my time 
repeatedly screaming at them and condemned those who support them). 
James and Sirius are fasinating interesting characters, I don't hate 
them one single bit! I love the pensive scene, it's fasinating to see 
Snape being assulted by James and Sirius. I'm not a blame-game player 
at all either. 


> Not when such blatant double-standards are used, no. The standard, 
as 
> I said, is that if the victim gets over it, 

Well this is not something I'm guilty of so I won't take "credit" for 
it. I also feel this statement is a bit too over-generalizing, it's 
not like every single Snape fans here put down other characters yet 
excuse Snape or something. Besides, you Snape-haters use double-
standards on Snape all the time anyways. What makes it okay for these 
Snape-haters to do that but not others? 


> Yep, she sure reacted well to Ron calling her a nightmare. Loved it 
> when she reacted to Trelawney telling her she was no good at 
> Divination by quitting. Cyborg!Hermione certainly raised her head 
in 
> OoP, but she has shown emotion before.

I never say she doesn't have emotion. Geez...just because I said she 
isn't a crybaby and that she doesn't let an insult cloud her 
judgement doesn't mean I said she doesn't have emotion! Do you have 
to put words into people's mouth all the time like that?

> She's not Snape, after all.

Duh! Of course She's completely different from Snape, geez didn't we 
all know that? That's why I like Hermione as a character for the cool 
way she is (and like Snape as a character for the nasty way he is).

-D