Hermione, Snape and all that jazz

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 70077

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:

> 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. <

Umm...and that would explain how come Umbridge can hand 
out unfair detentions all over the place?  Her  quill  is surely 
much worse than Snape's remark, and nobody stopped her. 

If Snape had wanted to put Hermione in detention, he could 
have. 

I don't think the tooth remark was calculated at all. After what we 
saw of Snape in the Pensieve, I think it was a catastrophic 
reaction. Anyone can have one of those--you know, you have one 
of those days where your car won't start, you're late to work, the 
boss chews you out, the waitress forgets to bring your coffee, 
and, having borne all this in silence,  you snap at the perfectly 
innocent person who says "Have a nice day!"

As in the Pensieve and the Shrieking Shack, Snape always  has 
his emotions under control--right up until the moment when he 
doesn't.

Pippin