[HPforGrownups] Reasons to hate Snape

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 56853

--- Cassie wrote:
> I don't know about the rest of you, but if
> someone threatened to hurt my pet 
> I'd go postal on them. Or maybe I'm more hurt
> by this because I'm an insane 
> animal lover XP 

Lynn:

It's funny because this didn't bother me about
Snape at all.  First, as bad as Snape is, I don't
believe any of the students think that he would
allow either Trevor or themselves to be seriously
harmed.  Harry believes that Snape intends to
poison him and while Harry takes learning
antidotes seriously, there's nothing to suggest
that he thinks he could die from the poisoning.

(Daily Prophet Headline:  HARRY POTTER KILLED IN
POTIONS TEST GONE BAD

The Daily Prophet has learned the the Boy Who
Lived was killed today in his Potions class at
Hogwarts when the antidote he made didn't work. 
He was poisoned to test the antidote.  Potions
Master Snape is quoted as saying, "I just knew
Potter's antidote would work since he's one of my
best students so I didn't have a working antidote
on hand when I poisoned him."  We are all
saddened by the loss of Harry Potter in this
tragic accident.)

People keep talking about Snape's motivational
tools and that's exactly how I see this one.  We
know he and other teachers are frustrated by
Neville (e.g. McGonagal telling Neville not to
mention to anyone from Durmstrang that he can't
perform even a simple switching spell, GoF, p.
208 UK).  We really don't know what the teachers
think the problem is, lack of ability, lack of
concentration, lack of focus, not caring, lazy,
etc.  This may be one way that Snape is trying to
focus Neville.  Snape may think that by taking
the focus off Neville himself and putting it on
Trevor, Neville will work harder to learn.

I know that if someone threatened to poison my
cats I'd be working a whole lot harder to learn
how to counter it than if someone was just
threatening me.

Lynn
(who isn't an insane animal lover but would
seriously mangle anyone who tried to hurt her babies.)

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