[HPforGrownups] Snape fair to Hermione?!

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No: HPFGUIDX 71985

In a message dated 7/20/03 11:39:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
owlery2003 at yahoo.com writes:
> Re-reading CoS I noticed that Lucius comments to Draco in Borgin & 
> Bourkes that Hermione did better than him in all his classes. This 
> would suggest that Snape gave her higher marks than Draco in 
> potions. Of course, Hermione is brighter than Draco (certainly in 
> the academic sense), but as far as Snape is concerned, you'd think 
> he'd come up with some way to mark Draco up, or mark Hermione down. 
> He seems to find reasons to dock Harry. But in this respect, at 
> least Snape gives Hermione her due. Never thought I'd be giving 
> Snivellus any credit, but there it is!

I, of course, *always* give Severus credit, and I'm about to give him some 
more:  Even Severus, for all his bitching, can't deny that Hermione is very good 
at ... well, almost everything *including* Potions.  He might not be that 
nice, but he knows talent when he sees it.

Besides, there's no way he could mark Hermione down even if he wanted to 
(which I don't believe!) because Dumbledore and everyone else knows Hermione's 
character.  Which means that everyone knows Hermione would be better than nearly 
everyone in the class.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
--Sometimes people worry about my blind faith in Severus...


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