Draco and equals + Snape(was: First meetings: Draco and Harry)

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No: HPFGUIDX 71486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
<owlery2003 at y...> wrote:
> Again, agreed in part. No canon for Pansy, though it's clear she's 
infatuated with Malfoy. But aside from bringing her to the Yule Ball 
(a simple, convenient  ornament, I'd say) there's not much canon for 
any other connection between the two, aside from JKR's inclusion of 
her in many scenes. Of course it's apparent she'd like there to be 
one. As to her intelligence, of course it must be greater than (the 
sum of) Crabbe and Goyles. OK, the pensieve thing was "wrong," but 
Snape certainly knows about Harry's predisposition for rule-
breaking, and could have cautioned Harry before walking out of the 
room . . . I've not heard anyone say Snape's an idiot. "Sorry" does 
seem to be the hardest word, though, and I certainly agree it seems 
to be entirely absent from Snape's vocabulary.
> 

I didn't mean that Pansy had done anything huge.  I just noticed 
that in this book she seemed to be mention more than she was in the 
others.  I was speculating that it meant something.  Also, she 
seemed more like a partner than a lackey when she conducted "Weasley 
Cannot Save a Thing."  I mean, did they really need anyone to 
conduct?

Draco liked Pansy gushing over him in PoA.  The are several possible 
reason for this:  1) He likes Pansy, 2) He just likes being gushed 
over 3) both (this one has my vote.)

The main thing though is probably during Unbridge's inspection of 
Hagrid.  She was mention at least 7 times and at least 2 in 
conjunction with Draco.  They just seemed almost together there.

The pensieve thing wasn't just wrong.  It was *way* beyond wrong.  
Going into someone's pensieve is worse than reading their diary 
(especially when you know they put things there particularly to keep 
them from you).  I'm of the opinion that even a parent doesn't have 
the right to read a child's diary unless they suspect something 
dangerous (like drugs or suicidal thoughts) so I think this was an 
absolutely horrible thing for Harry to do.  It's a terrible invasion 
of privacy.

I think you ought to be able to trust a 15 year old to respect 
that.  Besides, I'm not even sure if Snape knew that Harry knew what 
a pensieve was.  So one of two things happened.

1. Snape didn't know Harry even knew what a pensieve was.

2. Snape over-estimated Harry in this instance.

I don't like Snape, but I think Harry deserves 100% of the blame 
here.  Of course, Harry normally deserves only 0-2% of blame in 
situations with Snape (usually 0) but this time 

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