[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Harry

[Ridicully]

No: HPFGUIDX 79790

Laura:
> It's not the time delay that I wanted to bring up, it's the behavior.
>
> Except for the Ginny reaction, they just 
> seem like typical mean-spirited jabs.  
> 

Ridicully (that's me :)
But that's the whole point -- Snape is a nasty, mean-spirited
man. He enjoys to verbally torture Harry and his friends, 
*while he is helping them*.
Doing good things without being a nice person is what makes
Snape an interesting character.

Laura
> And Snape let himself get way out of control.  If a teacher in the RW 
> behaved toward a student the way Snape behaves toward Harry in that 
> pensieve 2 scene, he'd be fired in a red-hot minute. 

Ridicully again:
I don't think so, but my understanding of how teachers are supposed to 
behave in Britain is more than vague.
I wouldn't fire him if it was my decision to make -- Harry was completely
out of line in entering the pensieve. 
Of course Snape could have behaved more maturely but he could also 
have done a lot worse.

Smile
Ridi - ending a professional lurking career with this post- cully