OOP: A few Points on Snape and other things

[Brooke]

No: HPFGUIDX 62229


> > One would presume that James and Sirius did most of
> > their bullying 
> > when the teachers weren't looking- they probably had
> > some inkling of 
> > what was going on, but were unable to do too much
> > about it, unless it 
> > happenned in front of their noses- and we haven't
> > seen any instances 
> > where they were caught, so for all we know,
> > Dumbledore and McGonagall 
> > did jump on them for it. It's unlikely that Harry
> > would have heard 
> > too much about it from them though- after all, you
> > don't generally go 
> > up to someone and tell them that their dead father
> > was a bullying 
> > git, do you now?
> 
> 
> I agree that unbehavior abounded.  But lets not forget
> this happned during Voldemort's reign of terror.  They
> were probably loathe to expell anyone, because
> Hogwarts was a safer place.
> 
> But I still have trouble believing McGonagall and
> Dumbledore allowed things like that to happen.  But
> there is just no way they could have been unaware of
> it.
> 
> 
> Rebecca
> 

I think Rebecca has made an excellent point here.  V's reign of 
terror was going on, and there was probably a significant amount of 
animousity towards the Slytherin house at the time.  Some people may 
have been reacting to the horrible things going on outside of 
Hogwarts.  Maybe Sirius knew more about Snape than others did & told 
James.  Maybe Snape is a distant relation to Salazar Slytherin (or 
even Voldemort or Grindelwald?)  Remember Sirius (or was it James) 
said "it's more that he just exists" in the pensieve?  Maybe there's 
a lot more to that statement than just James & Sirius being 
heartless... and I thought this whole Snape thing was going to be 
resolved already!  I think there might be even more we don't know, 
but I could be wrong... 

Brooke