Hermione, Snape and all that jazz

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 70068

JoAnn:
> 
> How can we put making a rude comment about someone's teeth on a par 
> with hexing someone with impedimenta and then with scourgify, 
> physically flipping him up-side-down and showing off his pants, 
> threatening to remove his pants in front of his peers, then 
locomotor mortis, and then who knows what?
> 
> I'm not saying to let it go because Snape had a good line.  I'm 
> saying to let it go because it simply wasn't that bad as some are 
> making it out to be.  


There IS a difference between people of the same age getting into it 
with each other and between an adult doing it to a child.

And not just any adult, an authority figure. A teacher.

But who wants to be a teacher when there is a good line to get off?

Oh, but wait, Snape wants to be a teacher. When Ron and Harry start 
yelling at Snape for the incident, Snape is all ABOUT being an 
authority figure that demands respect. He gives them a detention and 
takes 50 points from Gryffindor.

So, he is certainly willing to say, "I'm a teacher. You will respect 
me" to punish students, but golly gee, when there is a great chance 
at a line, who cares about responsibility?


> I was <ahem> Rubensesque in my high school years.  Yet even if 
> something had made me suddenly overnight sprout a chest a la Dolly 
> Parton proportions, and a teacher had made a similarly rude 
comment,  I'd still have been far less traumatized than if I had been 
> physically assaulted by my peers who threatened to remove my blouse 
> and my brassiere.
 
And what if someone had dropped something down your shirt, causing 
you pain and/or discomfort and the teacher said, "Nice rack."?


> Back to Snape.  I think Snape would have sent Hermione to the 
> hospital wing in a few moments, if she hadn't already run off 
> herself.  I can imagine him staring and sneering, watching her 
coldly for a second or two as the teeth grew down to her waist and 
then  saying, "Hmm. Perhaps you do appear a bit long in the tooth, 
Miss  Granger.  Hospital wing," and then swooping away into his 
classroom.But Hermione ran off and the hall erupted into a "confused 
din."  You notice he didn't give Hermione a detention for missing 
class.  
 
Oh, yes, how could I have failed to miss that Snape made the 
magnanimous gesture of NOT punishing Hermione for missing class? I 
take it all back!

Let Madame Pomphrey take one look at Hermione and see how far a 
detention goes. Snape may be a slimy git, but he's not a moron. 


> And I don't think Ron was turning to Snape in hopes of getting some 
> sympathy for Hermione or because he expected Snape to "do 
something" as a teacher as much as he was hoping to get the 
Slytherins in  trouble, caught red-handed so to speak.
> 

It doesn't matter what Ron's motives were, ultimately. Snape had a 
job to do and he didn't do it.

Maybe he should pick on someone his own size.


Darrin