OOP:McGonagall and Severus

[chappysmom]

No: HPFGUIDX 61525

> I got the impression that he was very glad to see her. He strode 
forward, > his response when she's adding points is very un-
Snapelike, I think he was > very glad she was back. 

---------I think they're friends, too. Certainly they're colleagues--
they are both Dumbledore's most-trusted teachers, I think. They are 
the only two he allows to know what happened to Harry at the end of 
GoF, and they are also both members of the Order of the Phoenix. I 
don't think you can be in a band of people regularly risking their 
lives for the greater good without a certain feeling of cameraderie. 
They definitely compete with each other for their Houses at Hogwarts, 
but there's respect there. I don't think there are really that many 
people Snape really respects. He sneers at those he thinks are 
beneath them, bosses those he can, brown-noses a bit to authority 
(like Fudge at the end of Azkaban?) . . . generally, I think his 
social skills never got to grow as they should have. (And seeing his 
memory from the pensieve, that's not surprising.) I think he just has 
a hard time relating to people on a personal level, and Dumbledore 
and Minerva are two of the few he can manage that with. I'd like to 
see it with Harry, at some point--a detente, if you will--but with 
Malfoy still as his favorite boy, who knows?