just a general comment on these characters (was: Snape and Slytherins)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
> Question:  Who did the Gryffindors have DADA with third year?  Was 
it the Slytherins? Because I remember clearly that one scene in the 
teachers lounge where Snape makes a comment about Neville being in 
the class and how unsafe it was.  Who was he trying to impress 
there?  Or was he just doing it to get on Lupin's nerves?  I don't 
know just a thought.  
> 

me:
Nobody.  Unless I'm mistaken Gryffindor (Harry's year anyway) has 
always had DADA without another house.
> 
Melanie:
> And I just want to say that it is a credit to JKR's writing that 
all of us can be on so many polor oposites of characters.  I mean 
part of the reason we look at these people so differently is our own 
experiences.  For example, I remember when my fourth grade teacher 
called me dumb....and I'm 22 years old!  So naturally, I'm going to 
find Snape hard to read.  Their have been times, like that scene 
with Hermione and the teeth where I was actually reduced to tears 
over what he told her.  
> 
me:
I know exactly whet you mean.  In forth grade I told my teacher I 
dind't know how to do a math problem.  She said she wasn't going to 
spoon-feed me.  I didn't ask a teacher for help again for over six 
years.  I think what Snape does is terrible.  I just think that not 
realizing it's wrong to endanger another student's life (even when 
you're 35) is worse.
 
 > Melanie:
Personally, I think that Sirius is a very loving father figure for 
Harry (misplaced or not) and a fairly decent person.  
> 

me:
Oh, I agree.  I believe that if Sirius cares about you he'll live 
and die for you.  And he cared deeply for Harry.  It's just that if 
he doesn't like you, he doesn't seem to think you have any rights at 
all.

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