OOP: Snape, Neville, Draco

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No: HPFGUIDX 63001

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rane_ab" <rane_ab at h...> wrote:
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> I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find who it was that chose the 
> quote:
> "And Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates it 
> will mean a lot of tedious paperwork and I am afraid I shall have 
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> mention it on your reference if ever you apply for a job." (p. 657, 
> UK version)
> as the funniest and remarked on the dig Snape makes toward his own 
> house. I gave up trying to find it because there are just too many 
> messages. My apologies.



That was me, no problem, I do the same thing...scroll, bang head, 
scroll....



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> Continuing on the remark of whoever it was about Snape jeering his 
> own house's stupidity, I was wondering if the part "if ever you 
apply 
> for a job" refers to Crabbe being too stupid to apply for one, or 
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> Crabbe being so rich he doesn't need a job. 


I believe he was referring to Crabbe's stupidity. Snape's no idiot. 
If he was he'd have been long dead. I sincerely doubt he's labouring 
under the delusion that every student in his house are bound for 
glory.



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> Also, I remarked somewhere that I was a bit sorry that we didn't 
get 
> to see Snape putting Umbridge back into her place, as that would no 
> doubt have been hilarious, but really, re-reading that particular 
> scene (Out Of The Fire, p.656-657, UK version), Snape actually 
*did* 
> snark with her - and it was pretty funny.


Oh he did and it was glorious, wasn't it? Subtlety is an art and he 
is a master. The implication that she was unable to follow simple 
instructions "I told you 3 drops would be sufficient", explaining a 
month twice, the brilliant discourse on venoms as unlikey truth 
serums. Snape at his best...until he got better. The bow. Brilliant. 
She wants bowing and scraping? She shall have it.

Between Snape and McGonnagal, Umbridge was toast without the trip 
into the forest. It was nice to see Flitwick get a lick or two in as 
well.




> Again, why act that way in front of Draco? 

That is interesting. I pictured Draco standing with his mouth like a 
just-landed sea bass. I wonder if we will see "fallout" from his 
witnessing that scene. Although...much like the carefully chosen 
words in PS/SS with Quirrell--taken out of context what Snape said is 
easily defendable. He never outright "dissed" his superior, did he?




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> At the end of the book, where Harry is threatening to attack Draco, 
> and defiantly tells Snape that he's trying to decide which curse he 
> should throw at Draco, Snape isn't quite as mean as he could have 
> been. Harry's question is defiant (something I would expect Snape 
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I LOVED this scene. Loved it. There is obviously a change there. 
The fact that it's "interrupted" by McG's return makes it even better-
-she provides the house points for Snape to take away! Delicious. I 
love to see the 2 of them working in concert, even when it's 
unintentional. 



Enough already!
Melpomene