Hermione, Snape and all that jazz

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 70081


> > 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. 


Harry got detentions from Umbridge for talking back in class, 
actually, screaming back in class, the exact same thing Harry and Ron 
got detentions for from Snape after the tooth thing. Even McGonagall 
doesn't fight the detentions, Umbridge gave.

Her methods of detention are absolutely vile, but Harry never 
complains to anyone, including the nurse. And by the time we see 
other students get the detentions, Umbridge's power is too strong.

And since it has already been established, from Neville's broken 
wrist on down, that missing class due to injury is not really a 
detention-worthy punishment, and Snape himself allows Draco to come 
in late due to an injury, Snape NOT giving Hermoine detention here 
fails to impress me.

I mean, should I be impressed that he does something professional 
that other teachers do and that he himself has done for other 
students in his house?

And I stand behind the notion that if Hermione had a real injury, 
verified by Pomphrey, no detention would have happened.


> 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!"

All very true. But again, we're talking about shirking a 
responsibility at work, not just snapping at someone. And I consider 
insulting a students' appearance in front of her peers unacceptable.

Teachers are supposed to choke it down, frankly.

Darrin